>Always finding ways to do more with less. If I have
>one gallon of gasoline and I figure out a way to
>double the gas mileage of my car, all other things equal,
>I have doubled my energy reserves.
This is true, but "all other things" are never equal -- people are consuming
all they can, and more-than-reproducing themselves. Nevertheless, you still
haven't solved the fundamental problem. Even though you have "doubled" you
energy reserves, you are still going to run out.* The net effect of evading
responsibility is to dump the responsibility onto the children -- and make
the ultimate body count that much higher.
This is a really excellent example of innate deception and self-deception at
work. If we stopped lying to ourselves, we could no longer live as we do --
neither one of us.
Jay
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* Brad's argument was used by Julian Simon and is known as Zeno's Paradox.
