On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 16:17 -0800, Robbo wrote: > You misunderstand me - while there may be population constraints at > any one time the human species can move the goalposts with > technology. The limit to growth is human ingenuity and I believe > that is true yesterday, tomorrow, this century and, with a little > flight of fancy, for the unlimited human destiny over the next 5 > billion years amongst the stars. As we all know – there is no limit to > either human ingenuity or human stupidity.
In short, you believe in magic. I don't believe in magic. It seems to me that the physical world has limits that ingenuity can't alter. Or in other words, there are limits to ingenuity. There are physical limits to what can be done. We might not understand them completely, but what ever these limits are, they can't be changed by anything that we might do. -- Phil Hays <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange
