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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
Mike Asher wrote:
-> I'm sure they said the same thing in the 12th century: "You really
think
-> the earth can support *billlions* when the few million we have today
are
-> all starving to death?"
->
-> Of course, we do support billions today, and in far greater ease and
-> comfort than those few million on the 12th century. Why is that,
A.J. ?
It is because -- as anyone who studies the issue knows --
we are living on our natural capital.
Jay -- http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/
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"It was thus becoming apparent that nature must, in the not
far distant future, institute bankruptcy proceedings against
industrial civilization, and perhaps against the standing
crop of human flesh, just as nature had done many times to
other detritus-consuming species following their exuberant
expansion in response to the savings deposits their
ecosystems had accumulated before they got the opportunity to
begin the drawdown... Having become a species of
superdetritovores, mankind was destined not merely for
succession, but for crash." [OVERSHOOT,p. 172, 173]
OVERSHOOT by Catton, 1982, University of Illinois Press,
800-545-4703, Fax 217-244-8082
To learn out about the coming energy crash and die off:
BEYOND OIL, by Gever, et al., 1991,
University Press of Colorado, 303-530-5337
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