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Article #1146Re: Can we learn something from Easter Island?
From: Don Quijote
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 19:28
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 19:28
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"Wilbur Braunlin 4" <wilburbraun@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<7N3Kb.8595$6B.3443@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>... > One can, up to a certain point in a finite system, obtain resources from > other locations within the system in order to compensate for a lack of > sustainability. Witness the First World's current rape of our planet's > resources. For example, the USA has already used up over half of its > domestic oil reserves. However, rather than cutting consumption or switching > to sustainable energy sources, it now imports more petroleum. Thus, trade > will keep things going for awhile, but not over the long-run when a resource > that the global system relies on is dwindling. This concept is so important. So you use up the resources in your house and that makes you stronger. Then go to the next house and use his as well, in exchange for certain benefits to the owner of the house. Then there's another neighbor who refuses and you invade him. And so on and so on until the entire village is yours... Then you die for lack of other villages to invade...
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