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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



Jay Hanson wrote,

>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.

Mr. Hanson,

     The earth is not a closed system.  The laws of thermodynamics operate
quite differently in open systems than in closed systems.

Don




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