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Re: GOODBY MIKE!



In article <56q0os$kn5@news1.io.org>, yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky) wrote:


> I think it is totally appropriate to point out that ecologists know more
> about Carrying Capacity and its definition than the economists whose
> "economism" often blinds them to the basic realities of biology and
> ecology.
> 
> Many of these lightweights that Jay mentions in his post DON'T EVEN ACCEPT
> that Carrying Capacity is relevant in describing and analysing human
> societies and their relationship to the environment. For THESE ideologues
> of hell-bent-for-growth dogma, even to begin to challenge the fine points
> of defining the Carrying Capacity is itself the height of irrelevance.
> 
> Ecologically,
> 
> Yuri.

   Here, here! Carrying capacity for those who subscribe to the economic
religion is equivalent to the maximum amount of profits which can be
generated.

------------------------------Regards--------------------------------
Roy C. Dudgeon <umdudgeo@cc.umanitoba.ca>
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  A THING IS RIGHT WHEN IT TENDS TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY, STABILITY
AND BEAUTY OF THE BIOTIC COMMUNITY.  IT IS WRONG WHEN IT TENDS OTHER-
WISE.
                                --ALDO LEOPOLD, "THE LAND ETHIC".                  ---------------------------------------------------------------------


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