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Re: Economists on ecology (Re: GOODBY MIKE!)
JJP wrote:
-> Making extrapolations based upon current known supplies, prices,
usage
-> rates, technology etc. and then assuming that the market can't
respond
-> over time to changes is bad economics.
I guess it is to be expected that economists can only
think in terms of "bad economics" or "good economics".
Have you ever considered that economics is "bad reality"?
Of course the market "reacts" to conditions in reality,
so what? How can you formulate public policy base upon
such a stupidly simple observation?
-> This is exactly what led Thomas Malthus to predict that the human
-> population would be reduced to cannibalism as a result of
overpopulation
-> and the burden on the natural resources. He failed to account for
-> markets, future technology and a myriad of other factors. Obviously
he
-> was wrong, but a century later environmentalists are still promoting
the
-> 'sky is falling' theory using the same false methodology,
To see dead babies being thrown in a dump truck, see:
http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/zaire_goma_dead_30.mov
It seems that the skay has already fallen for them.
Jay -- http://csf.Colorado.EDU/authors/hanson/