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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
>On 10 Dec 1996 06:04:21 GMT, sync@inforamp.net (J McGinnis) wrote:
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>>Comparing our current situation to the past may show us some areas of
>>improvement, but it also shows us that at no time have we had the
>>destructive potential that we do now. And that we're not putting that
>>potential to much better use than we ever have.
This just isn't true. This may seem like a small point: our
destructive potential was far greater ten years ago than it is today.
In that decade the overall number of nuclear weapons in the world has
declined by perhaps as much as 40%. All the major powers, including
France and China, have ratified and come under the aegis of the
nuclear test ban treaty. The Union of South Africa has given up its
nuclear weapons, and the nuclear weapons programs of Iraq, Egypt and
North Korea have been halted.
Major weapons systems have been slowed, e.g. the B-2 and Sea Wolf,
while others, such as the racetrack missile and the bugso Star Wars
proposition have been halted.
At the same time the United Nations has substantially increased its
still small and weak military force. The Russian Army is now back in
Russia, except for a few units serving the UN.
Not bad. We haven't gone far, but we're going in the right direction.
Going slowly in the right direction is far better than going wrong at
great speed.
-dlj.
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