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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



mfriesel@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > 
> > Hehehe.   Unfortunately, that is not the correct definition of carrying
> > capacity.  If you're going to create the meanings as you go along,
> > communication becomes impossible.
> > 
> I note:
> 
> Actually, communication only becomes impossible when people refuse to 
> agree on definitions.  You see it here all the time.

Very true, especially when we're dealing with slippery concepts like
'growth' and 'standard of living'.  Carrying capacity, however, has a
clear, rigorous, definition: the asymptotic value of the controlling
population equation.  Mr. Hanson's definition of CC as "population of a
given species that be supported indefinitely in a defined habitat without
permanently damaging the ecosystem" is fallacious.

--
Mike Asher
masher@tusc.net



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