On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:14:22PM -0700, Roger Stockton wrote: > Unfortunately, a first world person "improving" their immediate personal > condition through unnecessarily excessive consumption of limited and/or > non-renewable resources ... > is contributing to degrading > the immediate and future living conditions for all first, second, and > third worlders as sell as their own.
In philosophical circles, where further discussions on this topic should migrate, this is called the Tragedy of the Commons. -- Alan Batie ______ alan.batie.org Me [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / www.qrd.org The Triangle PGPFP DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A \ / www.pgpi.com The Weird Numbers 27 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 \/ spamassassin.taint.org NO SPAM! "You just wish sometimes that the [Catholic] Church protected children as much as it protects fetuses." -- Lesbian comedian Kate Clinton writing in The Progressive, July issue.
