X-Loop: openpgp.net
From: "Tom Vogt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I won't copy the entire text of "The Ultimate Resource" here. Anyway,
the
notion of "finite resources" is dumb. All resources are infinite. The
Earth
is round. Deal with it.
"all resources are infinite" - may I quote you next time my
I won't copy the entire text of "The Ultimate Resource" here. Anyway, the
notion of "finite resources" is dumb. All resources are infinite. The Earth
is round. Deal with it.
"all resources are infinite" - may I quote you next time my machine runs
out of memory? maybe it'll be impressed.
I'll
X-Loop: openpgp.net
From: "David Honig" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:04 PM 4/25/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote:
Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans.
The difference between bacteria and humans is that some humans
think they're different. Meat is meat.
I'm a Christian.
X-Loop: openpgp.net
From: "Tim May" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just so you know, I believe the moral thing for Elian's father to
have done was to hire some skilled people--perhaps ex-Spetsnaz--and
go in to the Lorenzo and Maryslices home and taken Elian. Once Elian
was safely out of the house,
At 02:19 AM 4/27/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote:
The difference between bacteria and humans is that some humans
think they're different. Meat is meat.
I'm a Christian. These arguments don't hold water to me. Try Tim.
Well, admitting your irrationality is a good start. But we're talking
Tim May wrote:
At 12:42 PM -0400 4/26/00, Jim Burnes wrote:
Starvation and privation in most of Africa is almost a stereotype.
Stick with a minimal government and something approaching english common
law and we have goods and happiness aplenty.
There are some interesting issues
X-Loop: openpgp.net
From: "Tom Vogt" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
someone calculated that to supply the standard-of-living of canada today
to every person on the globe would require the natural resources of two
additional earths. I can look up the source if someone wants it.
"Someone" is an idiot. Read
Marcel Popescu wrote:
Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans. And we're not
interested in 7 billion years from now on, but in (at most) the next hundred
years. Given the current technology, we could feed probably 1,000 billion
people, and there's room for much more than
at the current standard of living for canada, we would ALREADY need two
ADDITIONAL earths to sustain the CURRENT world population.
even without a change in standards of living, given current growth and
the nature of exponential functions, we will exhaust this planet's
resources ca. 200 years
X-Loop: openpgp.net
From: "Tim May" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yep. Good bye.
Look, everyone, I'm putting him in my killfile too! [I can't do that without
saying it publicly, this would ruin the effect, right?]
Tim, I used to admire you. Sadly, it looks that I'm the only fucking
anarchist left on
At 01:04 PM 4/25/00 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote:
Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans.
The difference between bacteria and humans is that some humans
think they're different. Meat is meat.
And some of the humans think that, because a few percent has achieved
z.p.g.
At 12:42 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Jim Burnes wrote:
Please, Tom. This is really getting tired. Malthus' theories were disproven
years ago. Technology increases the population carrying capacity of the
planet.
Polynomial vs. exponential growth. Exponential wins every time.
Besides, the genes are
David Honig wrote:
At 12:42 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Jim Burnes wrote:
Please, Tom. This is really getting tired. Malthus' theories were disproven
years ago. Technology increases the population carrying capacity of the
planet.
Polynomial vs. exponential growth. Exponential wins every time.
At 03:34 AM 26/04/00 -0400, Tom Vogt wrote:
Marcel Popescu wrote:
Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans. And we're not
interested in 7 billion years from now on, but in (at most) the next
hundred
years. Given the current technology, we could feed probably 1,000 billion
At 04:09 PM 26/04/00 -0400, David Honig wrote:
At 12:42 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Jim Burnes wrote:
Please, Tom. This is really getting tired. Malthus' theories were
disproven
years ago. Technology increases the population carrying capacity of the
planet.
Polynomial vs. exponential growth.
At 12:42 PM -0400 4/26/00, Jim Burnes wrote:
Starvation and privation in most of Africa is almost a stereotype.
Stick with a minimal government and something approaching english common
law and we have goods and happiness aplenty.
There are some interesting issues normally neglected in the
X-Loop: openpgp.net
From: "David Honig" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 10:04 PM 4/21/00 -0400, david wrote:
Over population is junk science.
Sorry, can't let this one go. Over population is physics,
its why evolution works, its the sigmoid curve, its dying in
your own pollution. You may argue
"Marcel Popescu" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Read some Julian Simon. (BTW, if you look at the decaying ratio between the
prices of commodities and real salaries from the other side, it means that
the average price of labor *raises* compared to the price of commodities, so
we have an
18 matches
Mail list logo
