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Re: The Limits To Growth



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.
:  
: 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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           **    Yuri Kuchinsky in Toronto   **
  -- a webpage like any other...  http://www.io.org/~yuku  --
 
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being 
unable to sit still in a room    ||    B. Pascal



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