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Article #149Re: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time!
From: John McCarthy
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 02:00
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 02:00
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Mr. Berry challenges me to offer solutions to all the problems of
the U.S. I cannot accept this challenge, because I would have to
write a book. As I said, I am willing to accept any two environmental
or resource challenges. I believe I could give concise enough answers
so that people would read to the end.
I suppose he means by
But first world economic systems are "mining" the earth's
resources beyond replacement level.
more than the drop in the water table in the Central Valley.
Choose two, and I'll comment.
--
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
*
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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Newsgroups: ca.environment,sci.environment Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) Subject: Re: Save the Planet and the Economy at the Same time! In-Reply-To: kberry@sactoh0.sac.ca.us's message of Sun, 3 Jan 93 04:55:49 GMT Message-ID: <JMC.93Jan3020049@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University References: <01JAN93.01077145.0061@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <1993Jan2.194139.16483@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <JMC.93Jan2145832@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1993Jan3.045549.22294@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> Date: 3 Jan 93 02:00:49 Lines: 18