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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/ 
------------------------------------------------------------
"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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