[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Carrying capacity of the earth/Slander

2005-02-03 Thread Waistline2
CB: Again to keep using this phrase becomes willful slander and misrepresention. Too many is always a relative term. Too many relative to what ? We may reach a point that there are too many people to keep warm, make food for relative to the amount of fuel by way of a fossil fuel based

[Marxism-Thaxis] the carrying capacity of the earth

2005-02-02 Thread Charles Brown
Yea, I don't know why I keep sending these to the wrong lists. CB Waistline2 Comment 1. The concept of the carrying capacity of the earth as an aspect of what is called sustainability, is in my opinion fundamentally Malthusianism, even in the hands of Mark Jones. Generally, the following

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Carrying Capacity of the earth . . . again

2005-02-02 Thread Waistline2
Restraining the growth of consumption does not mean going back to living in caves and cooking over buffalo-chip fires. For decades in the rich nations increased consumption has not been correlated with increased satisfaction, and perpetuating Third World poverty is a luxury that the

[Marxism-Thaxis] Re: Carrying capacity of the earth

2005-02-01 Thread Waistline2
Sartesian's refusal to acknowledge that Mark's approach assumes the absolute necessity of socialist revolution as a premise to avoid ecological disaster makes his argumentation irrationally contentious in the form of arguing with a straw man. It is dishonest. Then to go into all that