At 03:32 PM Tuesday 5/13/2008, hkhenson wrote: >At 12:00 PM 5/13/2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > > >At 01:28 PM Tuesday 5/13/2008, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: > > > >>But the most interesting critique I can recall was by Michael Porter, > >>who wrote a pretty well-received book called "The Competitive Advantage > >>of Nations". He simply pointed out that anyone who advocated reducing > >>the standard of living of our citizens as a sound policy was not living > >>in a reality-based community. > > > >How do the demands^H^H^H^H^H^H^H recommendations of the > >environmentalists fare under that analysis? > >I can remember a related group, the Club or Rome. They sponsored the >Limits to Growth Conference in (I think) 1975. A contingent from the >just created L5 Society was there promoting solar power satellites as >a way out. > >The argument was that the advanced countries had to drop their >standard of living to the level of third world countries
Which means (getting back to something I was saying a couple of weeks ago) large numbers of older people, children, folks with currently manageable health problems, . . . , all dying just like such people do now in third world countries. > because the >resources for the rest of the world to come up to the US level did not exist. > >To some extent this has come about in the hollowing out of the US >middle class and the third world extremes of income distribution. > >They didn't want to hear that there might be a technological/engineering fix. > >It was kind of weird. Thinking back, the people at that meeting were >the elite of the elite (except for our bunch). Maybe that had >something to do with it. Like maybe they think they have a right to be the ones to survive the culling? (Sorta like so many have said that Hillary went into the current campaign thinking she had a divine right to be the next POTUS . . . ) No Thanks Maru . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
