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I'm a little confused; why is rural Texas less able to support human life than Manhattan? Other than the infrastructure that was built by humans, I assume the p
by ghayes 5y ago
I'm a little confused; why is rural Texas less able to support human life than Manhattan? Other than the infrastructure that was built by humans, I assume the primary advantage of Manhattan is protection from human invasion and easily accessible water?
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- missedthecue 5y agoIf a cattle farm isn't built in Manhattan, a thousand other people will be lining up to turn it into office, residential, or retail space. If a cattle farm isn't built in Erath County Texas, that land is going to sit there doing nothing. It has no other productive use case. The point of this is that pointing out how much land beef production uses isn't as insightful as it may at first seem, because that land isn't being taken from another economic activity.
- geoduck14 5y agoThere are, in fact, dairy farms in New York state. Also, the DFW area is the 4th largest region in the country - proving that you CAN put people and cows on the same land
- tuatoru 5y ago> Erath County Texas That looks like prime wind turbine power generation country.
- missedthecue 5y agoTrue, but a wind turbine can sit on a cattle pasture without causing issues, so that's immaterial to the arguments here considered.