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Re: Ecological Economics renamed



Renamed so as not to interrupt the thread.

Mike Asher wrote:
> 
> A.J. <alnev@midtown.net> wrote:
> >
> > Are you clinically insane, or do you really believe that "trillions"
> > of people can be supported when we've already got problems
> > with less than 1% of that number?  Are you aware that a billion is a
> > thousand million and a trillion is a thousand billion?  You are either
> > a complete idiot, or your posts have been an ongoing joke.  Please
> > come clean.   They say ad-hominem attacks are petty, but I'm afraid
> > your ludicrous statements offer no other recourse.  Please at least
> > answer this simple question (about the "trillions" nonsense).
> >
> 
> I'm sure they said the same thing in the 12th century: "You really think
> the earth can support *billlions* when the few million we have today are
> all starving to death?"

You keep doing this Mike, setting up a false proposition then knocking it 
down and claiming to have won an argument...

> Of course, we do support billions today, and in far greater ease and
>.comfort than those few million on the 12th century.   Why is that, A.J. ?

Like that 
It was your proposition, not his.
Have you any 12th century newspaper cuttings? 

If we go back 1,200 years, Plato was being ridiculed by his peers for 
suggesting that if the cedars of lebanon were cut down the area would turn 
into a desert. Well, who was right on that one?

Unlike you I have references for this. My research fees are quite 
reasonable, all I ask is that you consider what I write and reply in a like 
manner, ie. think about what you are replying to. If you would like the 
references, agree to consider them.
Andy
> --
> Mike Asher
> masher@tusc.net

PS, if you do have 12th c newspaper cutting with reference to the 20th 
century propects of billions, please accept my apologies.
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