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Re: Economists on ecology (Re: GOODBY MIKE!)



mfriesel@ix.netcom.com writes:

>George Antony Ph 93818 wrote:
>> Hence, the natural law of the exhaustion of resource X is at once applicable
>> in principle and not constraining for human society.

>....(examples read and understood)

>I request:
>Could you state in a sentence or so what 'the natural law of the 
>exhaustion of resource X' is?  I must have missed it earlier.

If resource X is limited, its continued use will lead to its exhaustion.

This seems to be the fundamental rationale used by people arguing for the
slowing of economic activity to save resources.  I note that the definition
may not satisfy everybody's views on the issue.

George Antony


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