On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: >> Instead it was directed at what Gene Coyle referred to as the "most >> people, including many on this list" who don't see runaway growth as a >> big problem. > > I wonder if you or Gene has ever done a poll to figure out what "most > people" or "many" on this list believe.
Lets just say I believe this is true, but it is not worth the effort to prove it rigorously. >> However I notice that you too make a distinction between combating >> pollution and growth. > > are you saying that I shouldn't make a distinction between "combating > pollution" and "combating growth"? So that "growth" (meaning GDP > growth, I presume) = pollution? I meant that you only addressed the problem of increase in pollution and apparently took the trouble of differentiating it from the problem of growth itself. >> I have said before and I say it again: >> progressives do not talk (and think?) enough about the problem of >> growth. It is simply not in the discourse to the extent it should be. >> If it is there, it is there as a footnote, an afterthought. The >> assumption is that there are other more important, pressing problems >> than the environment. > > I don't know if this empirical generalization is true or false. > It is demonstrably true. How many articles have you seen even on progressive media about growth recently? -raghu. -- Junk: stuff we throw away. Stuff: junk we keep. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
