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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
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Subject: Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
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From: "Steve Spence" <sspence@castle.net>
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Date: 9 Nov 1996 01:01:47 GMT
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Article: 15732 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Newsgroups: talk.environment, sci.environment, sci.energy, sci.econ, sci.agriculture, alt.sustainable.agriculture
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according to http://www.zinsser.com/spence/bcc/nuclear.html nuclear
development is back on track.
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Harold Brashears <brshears@whale.st.usm.edu> wrote in article
<32802b26.177047526@nntp.st.usm.edu>...
> jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy) wrote for all to see:
>
> >Jay Hanson includes:
> >
> > You may not remeber, but we humans have already appropriated
> > nearly 50% of the terrestrial net product of
> > photosynthesis. In other words, all solar energy is now
> > being used -- one way or another.
> >
> >The "in other words" is mistaken.
> >
> >Most of the sun's energy that strikes the earth is not causing
> >photosynthesis of any kind. It just warms the ground and is
> >re-radiated. It is available for solar electric power or for
> >increasing the total amount of photosynthesis.
> >
> >He also repeats that uranium is only 4 parts per million of the
> >earth's crust. Correct. He says we are nearly out of usable uranium
> >assuming we don't use breeder reactors. This is old information. We
> >aren't nearly out, because rich new uranium deposits have been
> >discovered. However, in the long run we will use breeder reactors.
> >
> >Hanson also includes:
> >
> > As far as "nukes" go, 35 years wouldn't even get you past
> > the lawsuits. Nukes are a political no-go.
> >
> >Coupling this with his prediction of industrial civilization
> >collapsing, it suggests that humanity in general and the U.S. in
> >particular would rather perish than overcome legal guerrilla warfare.
> >Does he really believe that?
>
> I don't know if he believes it or not, but I do think he hopes for it.
>
> Regards, Harold
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> "If environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring
> human populations back to sanity, it would probably be
> something like AIDS."
> - Earth First newsletter, December 1989,
> Vol. 17, No. 4, Access to Energy.
>