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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
> 
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> Major weapons systems have been slowed, e.g. the B-2 and Sea Wolf,
> while others, such as the racetrack missile and the bugso Star Wars
> proposition have been halted.

I note:

Star Wars is still around under a new acronym which escapes me at the 
moment.  Another good cartoon by Toles has Reagan flying around in space 
in a rocket and wearing a superman outfit.  Reagan speaks to the reader:

'Why has Star Wars survived all the criticism so far?  Because it's not
Star Wars. (fold fold and the spaceship looks like a doo-dad with a 
switch)  It's STI the Strategic Transformer Initiative.  I make a few
key adjustments... (fold fold - now Reagan's head is sticking out the 
end of the rocket, the fins folded to look like bird wings, and a wire 
halo coming out of his hat) ...and I'm the good fairy of a world where 
nuclear weapons are impotent and obsolete.  And if that's not 
possible... (fold fold back into a rocket).. then we're just a defense 
of our missile fields.  And if that's a treaty violation or too 
expensive...(fold fold, now Reagan is holding a large test tube made of 
the rocket)...then we're just a research project...(squash stretch - now 
a disk like a flat flying saucer with Reagan in the central dome)..or a 
bargaining chip...(fold back into a rocket) ...or not.  You see, our 
critics are trapped in a past world of limited possibilities.  Younger 
Americans and I share a whole different world...(fold fold - a T.V. set 
showing Reagan)...Saturday morning cartoons.  Now here's how to send for
the full-scale model...'






> 
> At the same time the United Nations has substantially increased its
> still small and weak military force. The Russian Army is now back in
> Russia, except for a few units serving the UN.
> 
> Not bad.  We haven't gone far, but we're going in the right direction.
> Going slowly in the right direction is far better than going wrong at
> great speed.
> 
>                                                         -dlj.



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