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In article <6fe_9506211301@salata.com> Doug.Bashford%ow@salata.com (Doug Bashford) writes:
    >Sustained economic growth is impossible because it is tied to
    >physical consumption (wealth).  Why impossible??  5% annual growth 
    >in the consumption of 2 grams any substance will become a "hole" 
    >with a mass of 800 trillion planet earths in only 2,000 years.
    >Thus long term economic growth is impossible.  This is but one 
    >of many fallacies in ALL orthodox economic foundations. - G. Hardin

Snicker. The obvious and continual economic growth over the last
25,000 years sort of contradicts this doesn't it?

After all, to handle all the phone transactions we have now would
have taken ALL the women in the country to be phone operators if we looked
at it with 1900 technology.

And our towns would be chest deep in horse shit if we looked at our
current transportation from the 1880 viewpoint.

Another point: from the first commercial jet to the current 777, the
fule needed to move one passenger one mile has come down ALMOST two
orders of magnitude.

    >The Endangered Species Act doesn't need to be balanced by
    >economic considerations; the Endangered Species Act _is_ the
    >balance.

I'll take the welfare of a human, say, a newborn baby, over a snail or
worm or toad any day. Those that don't only express how much their
self-loathing has extended itself into hate of their own species.

I say we round 'em all up and dump them into their heaven, say,
a pristine wilderness somewhere. See how many weeks, if not hours,
before suddenly the "anti-environmental wasteful" things like
electricity, food, medicine, and toilets become necessities.


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