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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



Matt Kennel <mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu> wrote:
> 
> Sure, you can shoehorn a few billion people into Texas, but WOULD
> THEY WANT TO??  Of course not, it wouldn't be that nice a place to live.

Your conclusion doesn't neccesarily follow.  At the population density of
Tokyo, we can fit 2 trillion people or so on the planet.  Yet people still
move to Tokyo by choice, I might add.

Personally, I'd rather not live in Tokyo, but somewhere with a population
density of no more than 1% of that.  So, lets not let world population rise
about 20 billion, ok?

--
Mike Asher
masher@tusc.net

"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger
pain
the second time around."
  - Herb Caen



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