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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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