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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
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Subject: Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
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From: bg364@torfree.net (Yuri Kuchinsky)
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:00:45 GMT
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Article: 15950 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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David Lloyd-Jones (dlj@inforamp.net) wrote:
: yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky) wrote:
: >World Food Organization reports that over 800 million people are starving
: >on this planet right now. Get rid of your pink glasses.
: Yuri,
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: I very much doubt that this is what the World Food Organization
: (what's that?)
That's FAO, a UN agency. Have your heard about them?
: reports -- but I am perfectly willing to believe that
: 800 million are close to the margin.
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: It would also be my guess that at the turn of the century there were
: 800 million hungry out of a population of a billion.
How do you know this? The number of hungry people on the planet is now
greater than ever!
Yuri.
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------------------------| is always Paradise: so say the most ancient
Toronto ... the Earth | and the most modern serpents." F. Nietzsche
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