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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



George Antony Ph 93818 wrote:

> I suppose that rules out growing trees for firewood then, or growing out-
> of-season vegetables and flowers out of season in glasshouses.  Using
> agricultural crops to produce motor fuel is out of the question too.
> A pity, they all sounded such a good idea ;-)

Actually, according to the work of H. T. Odum, ethanol is a net energy
loss when one considers the fossil inputs.

I can look up a reference if you are interested.

> Quite likely there WILL be 15 billion people.  So, the sooner we start
> thinking about how to support them the better.

Our time would be better spent thinking about how to bury them.

Jay
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"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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