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Re: The Limits To Growth
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Subject: Re: The Limits To Growth
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From: charliew@hal-pc.org (charliew)
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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 96 01:53:34 GMT
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Article: 15776 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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In article <3287B796.29F5@ilhawaii.net>,
Jay Hanson <jhanson@ilhawaii.net> wrote:
>Mike Asher wrote:
>
>> As an aside, I will note that the majority of
agricultural land in the
>> world is farmed with low-tech inefficient methods.
Expantion of the use of
>> modern agriculture, new species, and good infrastructure,
can more than
>> double world food production. All without an additional
acre being farmed,
>> though, in the US at least, agricultural land usage has
been on the decline
>> for many years. Perhaps you have some statistics here?
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>Modern agriculture is not sustainable.
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> THERMODYNAMICS AND THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FOOD
PRODUCTION
> by Jay Hanson <jhanson@ilhawaii.net> — revised
11/04/96
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>All matter and energy in the universe are subject to the
Laws of
>Thermodynamics. In the discipline of Ecological Economics,
systems are
>delimited so that they are meaningful to our economy. What
does
>thermodynamics have to do with the sustainability of food
production?
>
(BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG CUT)
Jay,
you're taking up a lot of bandwidth with this crap. We've
all had ample opportunity to learn of your opinion about the
connection between entropy and food production. Many of us
are not convinced, no matter how many times you post your
same senseless, extremely long document.
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