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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



On Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:13:25 GMT, briand@net-link.net (Brian Carnell)
wrote:

>On 24 Nov 1996 14:25:12 GMT, yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky) wrote:
>
>>Bunk, as usual. The Japanese are sucking dry the resorces of half-the-
>>world. Japanese logging companies are destroying the rainforests of SE
>>Asia faster than you can say "libertarian". Now they moved into Siberia to
>>continue the same. 
>
>Siberia. I'm surprised you're not arguing Siberia is overpopulated.
>Since the U.S. is overpopulated and Zaire is overpopulated, why stop
>with Siberia?
 
Brian,
 
I would have thought that there is a good case to be made that Siberia
is overpopulated.  It's now twenty-four years since I've been there,
but since that time Lake Baikal has been found to be severely polluted
and shrunken in size.  When I was there people already talked
wistfully about how good the hunting had been in their fathers' time.
 
To find a place that is not over-populated you have to go to someplace
like Holland -- where there is the technical superstructure to provide
for the human beings.  Oddly, we know how to do that for a region of
industrial agriculture.  It's wilderness, with which we have thousands
of years of experience, that we don't know how to handle properly.
 
                                                         -dlj.


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