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Re: The Limits To Growth



jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy) wrote:

>Making energy efficiency a general goal is foolish.  What counts is
>the labor efficiency that permits two percent of the American
>population to grow food for all of us and then some for export.
>Even yield/hectare is much less important than yield/man-hour.
>American farms are typically less efficient than European in
>yield/hectare and more efficient in yield/man-hour.
 
Which reminds me: if we've got a population surplus, howcome the price
of labour is going up _everywhere_?
 
                                       -dlj.
 




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