Rand Simberg wrote:

On 25 Mar 2004 22:24:28 -0800, in a place far, far away,
(Christopher M. Jones) made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

OK, you said that twice the current population would be
overpopulation. That's equally nonsense.

I said that we *could* double our population, but at the cost of a
substantial portion of our remaining wildlife habitat.

That's not necessarily true.

Someone's obviously never seen the US from the air.
There's lots of room out there.

Or even driven. California by itself is for the most part empty.

groan I have driven, and flown (and hiked) all over California and
the West for 40 years. A lot of places in the West would have trouble
growing a crop of tumbleweeds. Is there a point to all this?