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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
On Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:06:02 -0700, mfriesel@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
>> I doubt that there is a science in which "greedy," "stupid," and
>> "violent" are useful objective variables.
>I reply:
>
>No-one claimed there was such a science. The assumption was behavioral
>consistency, and the preceding point was that you use real data when
>real data is available. I'm surprised that you didn't notice this -
>well, somewhat surprised.
BUt this is precisely what the preceding point was _not_. The
original quote had no content beyond a cynical viewpoint about
humanity.
People like the original poster in fact tend not to be interested in
data in the past, present, or future. The past they ignore, the
present they distort, and it is only about the future that they are
certain: it is disaster in precisely, pick a number, years.
-dlj.
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