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Re: The Limits To Growth



curry@hpl.hp.com (Bo Curry ) wrote:

>Mason A. Clark (masonc@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>: It appears that I mislead David and perhaps everyone with a kind of 
>: negative-positive: "anti-Pollyanna".
>
>"Cassandras" would work.
 
Same problem: who is saying that what outcome is bad?  

Meself I expect the worst of all possible worlds: substantially
suboptimal performance thanks to the interference of all the Jay
Hansons of this world, with a background noise of them prating about
how all their predictions came out wrong because of the effect they
had on policy.  Imagine: Barry Commoner in his later dotage saying
that the Chinese peasantry control their birth rate because they so
love his damn book.
 
                               -dlj.
 
        





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