[extropy-chat] urban sprawl as defense

Spike spike66 at comcast.net
Thu Aug 19 05:07:07 UTC 2004

Most would agree that there is a growing threat to
western civilization of an attack by some sort of
weapons of mass destruction: bio, gas or nuke.  We
are developing antimissile tech, but seems to me
another parallel defense would be to encourage
urban sprawl.  An enormous smeared out suburbs
would be far less vulnerable to attack than an
enormous highly concentrated city, would it not?
The argument is made that urban sprawl is bad for
wildlife, but the alternative may encourage an
attack which would be bad for both humans and
wildlife.  Perhaps cities have outlived their


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