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Re: The Limits To Growth
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Subject: Re: The Limits To Growth
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From: jmc@Steam.stanford.edu (John McCarthy)
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Date: 15 Nov 1996 17:31:31 GMT
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Article: 15984 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Followup-To: alt.politics.economics,alt.save.the.earth,alt.sustainable.agriculture,sci.econ,sci.energy,sci.environment,talk.environment
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In-reply-to: bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de's message of 14 Nov 1996 17:27:43 GMT
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Newsgroups: alt.politics.economics, alt.save.the.earth, alt.sustainable.agriculture, sci.econ, sci.energy, sci.environment, talk.environment
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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References: <542t7d$iep@rainbow.rmii.com> <JMC.96Nov12094842@Steam.stanford.edu> <56fkqf$5omj@sat.ipp-garching.mpg.de>
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Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
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In article <56fkqf$5omj@sat.ipp-garching.mpg.de> bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de (Bruce Scott TOK ) writes:
> John McCarthy (jmc@Steam.stanford.edu) wrote:
> : So Population Action International considers it impossible that that
> : the production of farmed fish can reach the present catch 85 million
> : tons of wild fish. I am not surprised that Population Action
> : International would say that - or that Jay Hanson would take their
> : statement as authoritative and not requiring substantiation.
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> The source was the FAO.
I am still not convinced.
The recent news story on the Rome food conference had two FAO
officials with different emphases. The one more enthusiastic about
farmed fish said that one out of five fish eaten in the world was
farmed and mentioned new technologies for farmed fish.
--
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
During the last years of the Second Millenium, the Earthmen complained
a lot.
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