[Buddha-l] Big is beautiful (was: Review of a review)

[Timothy Smith]

Yeah Franz,  I grew up in Long Beach, where every escapee from the midwest had a lawn
and sidewalk and watered both.  Water was easy in those days, we stole it from the Colorado.
Coastal CA has the worst water problem per capita in the country, I'd bet.  At least Hayes
in NM doesn't steal it as much, and when they do, it is stolen from Tejas which doesn't count.


Timothy Smith
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On Jul 2, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Franz Metcalf wrote:

> Richard et al.,
> 
> You wrote,
> 
>> My usage came out to around 975 cubic meters per
>> year, a little less than half the usage of the average
>> American and about the same as the average Indian.
> 
> Hey, not too bad. I was at 1039, but I allocated all our landscaping  
> and dishwashing water to myself, so we are probably comparable. Being  
> in Los Angeles, I need to respect my dry environment, as you do. My  
> wife (who grew up in Iowa) insisted on a small lawn which uses about  
> 2/3 of our entire irrigation water though it takes up less than 1/10  
> of our garden area. I feel about it much as I do about eating meat: in  
> other words, sadly well attached. But none of this, as you point out,  
> holds a candle to cotton--once California's #1 cash crop, now  
> supplanted by marijuana! If we just switched cotton for hemp, perhaps  
> the marijuana would be weeded out (it is a weed, after all).
> 
> But it would be best if we just left the Southwest to the sky-clad  
> plants, out in the sun, digambara!
> 
> Franz
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