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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



On 8 Dec 1996 01:36:48 GMT, jwas@ix.netcom.com(jw) wrote:

>In <587ngd$l83@news.inforamp.net> dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones)
>writes: 

>>>: And *that* was a great time to be alive, eh , Yuri?
>>
>>Brian's good point aside, Yuri's claim is bloody unllikely to have
>>been true.  More plausible is that each encroaching ice-age brought
>>immense die-backs, to say nothing of horrible wars at the margins
>>between different human groups.
>
>This is more than plausible;
>many groups have died off completely.
>Nevertheless, Yuri's claim is, in a sense, true:
>on the *average*, the human population of the globe only
>increased slowly: by the factor of maybe thirty of fifty
>in a million years. 

Yes. And, to borrow the AIDS activists slogan a bit,

STABILITY=DEATH


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