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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
On 12 Dec 1996 19:00:33 GMT, sync@inforamp.net (J McGinnis) wrote:
>dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones) wrote:
>>
>>>On 10 Dec 1996 06:04:21 GMT, sync@inforamp.net (J McGinnis) wrote:
>>>
>>>>Comparing our current situation to the past may show us some areas of
>>>>improvement, but it also shows us that at no time have we had the
>>>>destructive potential that we do now. And that we're not putting that
>>>>potential to much better use than we ever have.
>>
>>This just isn't true. This may seem like a small point: our
>>destructive potential was far greater ten years ago than it is today.
>
>Prove it.
>
>>In that decade the overall number of nuclear weapons in the world has
>>declined by perhaps as much as 40%. All the major powers, including
>>France and China, have ratified and come under the aegis of the
>>nuclear test ban treaty. The Union of South Africa has given up its
>>nuclear weapons, and the nuclear weapons programs of Iraq, Egypt and
>>North Korea have been halted.
There is your proof.
-dlj.
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