How to create Millions of Sustainable Jobs within a Year
NOTE: do read the older post http://someitemshave.blogspot.in/2011/10/towards-green-life.html for a background to this one. S ome of my earlier posts have alluded to the possibility of a return to land as a way of creating jobs in developed economies such as that of the USA that is trying to deal with this issue. The last post described a layout of farmlands in designed narrow strips so as to minimize some of the hardships faced by rural communities. May I call these AM farms for convenience here. Let us consider a fifty into fifty mile irrigated land area divided up into AM farms and try and estimate roughly the expenses for creating them and the number of jobs that might be created by doing so. It would be necessary to divide the landmass into a grid of roads that are a mile apart in order to provide road access to all the farms for the purpose. One square mile of land area results in 50 AM farms laid back to back and facing two roads that are