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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



Don Dale wrote:

> Very few lived to be hungry.  Ask yourself whether the world of 1200 AD
> could have supported the population of today.  It is the advances in
> productivity made possible by capitalism which has allowed the population
> to grow as it has.

Obviously the world of 1200 AD DID have the natural capital
 to support today's population -- otherwise it couldn't have 
  happened.

It is the advances in "depletion of natural capital" which have
 allowed the population to grow as it has. Unfortunately, in a
  finite world governed by the laws of thermodynamics, our
   endowment of natural capital is rapidly being pissed-away on
    anything that is convertible to personal power.

When our supply of natural capital crashes, it's going to take
 that population of today along with it.
                               . . .
By Darwinian lights, Democracy and Capitalism are no more than
 formalized battles over sex and food. Once the young bulls find
  out that a few old bulls ate and screwed the whole god damn
   planet, they are going to want to get even.

As Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre would say,
 "it's deja vu all over again".

Jay -- http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/


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