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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
Mason A. Clark (masonc@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: On 15 Nov 1996 14:38:27 GMT, yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky) wrote:
: > Would you like to explain why your suspicion should be valid? It seems to
: > me that for many thousands of years when the global population was stable,
: > the ecological impact was also stable.
: >
: Over what chosen time interval was the human population ever "stable"?
Over 99% of human history it was more or less stable.
: During recorded history
Don't be silly. This is only 1% of human history. Back to Historical
Anthropology 101 with you...
: there were ecological impacts of population expansion,
: over-grazing, natural disasters (such as floods), and militaristic expansions led
: by demagogues (Attilla?) Humanity and stability don't go together.
Yuri.
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