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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



Thomas Beale (thomas@class.com.au) wrote:

: Actually, I'm not convinced that population growth is the primary
: problem facing us, with respect to resource usage (although I agree
: with the sentiment behind wanting to limit it).

I certainly think it's primary.

: However, I think the
: unsustainable modes of resource exloitation today are so efficient and
: devastating, and the rate at which such exploitation takes place is
: increasing over time without a particularly strong relation to the
: underlying population base.

Why do you think the relation is not strong?

: I suspect that the consumer demands of a
: population fixed numerically, but not in terms of affluence expectation
: (& therefore consumer power) would still lead to major ecological
: impacts.

Would you like to explain why your suspicion should be valid? It seems to 
me that for many thousands of years when the global population was stable, 
the ecological impact was also stable.

Yuri.
--
           **    Yuri Kuchinsky in Toronto   **
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Most of the evils of life arise from man's being 
unable to sit still in a room    ||    B. Pascal



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