Re: Sustainable Growth Is Unsustainable ( Frosty Wooldridge )

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From: tedorn44
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:12

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Irving Layton wrote:
> <tedorn44@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >> THE MEANING OF SUSTAINABILITY
> >>
> >> First, we must accept the idea that "sustainable" has to mean "for an
> >> unspecified long period of time." Yes, far into the future.
> >>
> > Second, we must acknowledge the mathematical fact that steady growth
> > gives very large numbers in modest periods of time.  For example, a
> > population of 10,000 people growing at 7 percent per year will become
> > a population of 10,000,000 people in just 100 years.  Please, stop and
> > think about that; TEN MILLION for every TEN THOUSAND.
> >
> > From these two statements we can see that the term "sustainable
> > growth" implies "increasing endlessly," which means that the growing
> > quantity will tend to become infinite in size.


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>
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> Isn't that a circular argument?



ted
>
> The author says we must "we must accept the idea that sustainable *has* to
> mean for an unspecified long period of time."   Then he uses a line of
> reasoning to show that "sustainable growth implies increasing endlessly."
> He really hasn't proven anything, since his conclusion is one of the things
> he said had to be accepted prior to his reasoning.

Horse manure. To hell with the technical aspects of the writer's
effort. Fact is America does not need more people. Period. In fact,
deporting up to 20 million illegal aliens would initate an economic and
cultural boom.

ted

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