[Terrapreta] if yer not forest...

[lou gold]

Easy Brother,

It's a mis-communication. The 'region' I was referring to is specifically
the present-day vineyard areas, oak savanna areas in counties like Sonoma
and Mendocino. (Not something like the full Bay Area or the vast California
areas of dense urban sprawl.) I don't have the quick reference but the
managed landscapes of oak savanna are thought to have once supported higher
density populations than reside within those landscapes today.

I sent the "reality check" post precisely because I didn't want to trigger
folks into thinking that I'm a future-primitive advocate. Yes, I believe
that there needs to be industrial scale responses to industrial scale
problems.

Thanks for giving the opportunity for clarification.

lou

On 9/24/07, Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi Lou,
>
> The entire estimated population in North America in 1620 was 2 million (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population).  Today it is over 300
> million (only 150 times larger).  When did the die off of a greater
> population than now of "salmon and acorn" people occur?  It does not seem
> right that there is or was enough land covered in oak trees, even form LA,
> through Paso Robles, San Francisco, and all the way up to Oregon, that there
> would be enough to feed more than the number of people that are there now.
> That very prolific agricultural area of our country cannot now feed even
> part of our countries entire 250 million population.
>
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