ravi wrote: > I have made > reference, in the past, to the First Law of Thermodynamics or the law of > conservation of energy. As we continue to grow our consumption, our material > wealth, our populations, etc, we will (and have) cross(ed) a point where we > destroy the things that sustain us.
The first law only works for closed systems. The Earth is not one of these. > how does one define > "poverty"? One definition is as having less economic, political, and social power than anyone else in society, thus being dragged down by a vicious circle of the sort that Gunnar Myrdal referred to. It's like being in quicksand. -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
