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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



In article <Pine.PMDF.3.91.961212202123.874591A-100000@OBERLIN.EDU>,
Toby Reiter  <str4552@OBERLIN.EDU> wrote:
>
>
>On 12 Dec 1996, David Lloyd-Jones wrote:
>
>> On 12 Dec 1996 19:00:33 GMT, sync@inforamp.net (J McGinnis) wrote:
>> >>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.
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>This is no proof that there is no problem with nuclear weapons. Remember 
>those laws of thermodynamics, buddy? Matter can be neither created nor 
>destroyed?  There are just as many nuclear weapons today as there were 
>before. Some of them may just be buried somewhere in a desert next to an 
>Indian reservation or simply not pointing at anyone in particular. As 
>long as anyone continues to belittle the universal problems of nuclear 
>power, whether as weapons or fuel, then this world will not be safe.

  Well, we could burn plutonium in nuclear power plants, thereby
  destroying it.  Ah, but such a policy just makes too much sense.

  BTW, does anyone have any details regarding the Eqyptian nuclear
  weapons programme cited above?  I do not recalling ever hearing
  of it.


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                                |  the tough hide under the table.
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