October 04, 2006
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Are Now Inconvenienced
A New York Reader Explains
Population Density To A Canadian Reader
From:
William Dial
Re: Today’s Letter:
A Canadian Reader Gives Joe Guzzardi A Geography Lesson
There's no need for Guzzardi to take a geography lesson
from someone who clearly never studied the subject.
When geography was taught in American (and I presume
Canadian) schools, students learned about
ecumene, which can be
defined as the inhabited—and more importantly, the
inhabitable—part of the world or of a given
country.
I'm tired of hearing that the United States can
accommodate the entire population of the world and be no
more densely populated than
England, or some such nonsense.
The ecumene of the U.S., as a fraction of its
size, is much, much smaller than that of
England.
There's plenty of empty space in America and even more
in Canada. And that will never change because there will
never be enough resources to settle people at uniform
density. Three hundred million U.S. residents is plenty.
I think I'm still within my rights as an American
to say that.
Dial is a
freelance writer who says that “New Yorker” and “American”
should not be “conflicting identities”
