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Re: The Limits To Growth
masonc@ix.netcom.com (Mason A. Clark) wrote:
>4. The acidity of the "no limits" posters is not buffered by
> the fact that the worriers may have some points and may, by
> their anti-Pollyanna program be a major factor in postponing
> the time of reckoning.
Mason,
This is perfectly plausible, but is not in fact true. Us acid tongued
ones are the people who are in fact creating useful and usable
mechanisms or reckoning -- cost benefit analysis, international
treaties, arrests on the high seas, etc. etc. There is of course more
to be done, and we're doing it.
The people you quite conservatively call Pollyannas are doing nothing
useful; if anything they harm the cause they claim to support,
bringing legislation, regulation, and negotiation into disrepute by
demanding laws and rules which are harmful and impotent. The
Environmental Protection Agency in its first flush of ukases is an
example of such laws and rules, and it is only now, 20 years later,
that the agency is becoming practical enough to do more good than
harm.
-dlj.
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