> And yours is to drive from Boston to Miami. Or London to Glasgow. Or Osaka to Tokyo. I haven't driven from Boston to Miami in one trip, but I've traversed th

> And yours is to drive from Boston to Miami. Or London to Glasgow. Or Osaka to Tokyo. I haven't driven from Boston to Miami in one trip, but I've traversed that entire corridor. My grandparents once owned a few acres on a private lake near Eastford, CT. Lots of cool old dairy-farms, apple orchards, berry-picking, bird-watching, wildlife, et cetera. Most of I95 south of Alexandria is rather boring -- hours and hours of trees -- if you're starting by DC it's a little more fun to divert along US 301, passing through horse territory and then rolling through Fort AP Hill. More travel time, but on the northern part of the route you're more likely to pass the occasional roadside produce stands. The southernmost bits are the ones I'm less familiar with, though those are possibly the most interesting as in Florida in particular there are places where urban development threatens the most sensitive ecosystems... but the Everglades were never known for agriculture. Agriculture does moreover threaten ecosystems across the midwest (one recent example: monarch butterflies have been suffering massive population drops in the past few years because Roundup-Ready crops have led to widespread herbicide application that kills the weeds that they'd use for food). But agriculture itself is not under substantial pressure from urban land use at this time. Look, let's ask the US Department of Agriculture: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib-economic-information-bulletin/eib14.aspx http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib-economic-informatio... (2002). Urban land, 2.6% of the nation's land area. Crop land, 19.5%. Grassland pastures/ranges: 25.9%. -http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/249911/eib14fm_1_.pdf http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/249911/eib14fm_1_.pdf "In 2002, urban land in the United States was less than 3 percent of total land area, but housed 79 percent of the U.S. population." - http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/250013/eib14g_1_.pdf http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/250013/eib14g_1_.pdf Space for physical people has always been a nonissue next to space for their agriculture and other people-supporting land uses.