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Re: The Limits To Growth
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Subject: Re: The Limits To Growth
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From: yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky)
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Date: 14 Nov 1996 16:34:44 GMT
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Article: 15902 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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David Lloyd-Jones (dlj@inforamp.net) wrote:
: jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy) wrote:
: >Making energy efficiency a general goal is foolish. What counts is
: >the labor efficiency that permits two percent of the American
: >population to grow food for all of us and then some for export.
: >Even yield/hectare is much less important than yield/man-hour.
: >American farms are typically less efficient than European in
: >yield/hectare and more efficient in yield/man-hour.
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: Which reminds me: if we've got a population surplus, howcome the price
: of labour is going up _everywhere_?
How do you know that? The price of labour is going up in Zaire? Genocide
must be pretty labour-intensive then...
It is people like you who bring us Zaire. I remember posting about this
many months ago predicting that this is EXACTLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN!
Go ahead and snicker about it in your usual style. I expect THIS from
you...
Yuri.
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