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Re: Ecological Economics renamed



sdef! <savage@easynet.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > 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...

Didn't claim anything; just made the observation that doomsaying has a long
history.  They haven't been right in 4000 years, but they're still trying.

> 
> > 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? 
> 

Silly boy.  They didn't HAVE newspapers in the 12th century. 

--
Mike Asher
masher@tusc.net





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