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Re: The Limits To Growth



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?
>
>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
>
>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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