> On 27 Dec 2014, at 1:34 pm, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014, Kim Jones <kimjo...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> > Clearly the guy was right.
>
> Yes "long-continued progress in such a manner is altogether impossible", and
> that is why the standard of living and total global global economy of the
> human race reached its peak 50 years after Jevons time in the year 1915.
>
>> > He was right in his day and he will be right at least 50 years hence
>
> No matter how far into the future you go William Stanley Jevons will always
> be right, but only if you go just another 50 years further ahead.
>
> John K Clark
>
Tee hee. So you are saying - are you not - that it never makes sense to worry
in any naked sense about our tendency to gobble everything up like bacteria in
a petri dish and then whinge about the taste of our own shit when we start to
suffocate in it?
K
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