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Re: The Limits To Growth
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Subject: Re: The Limits To Growth
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From: "Mike Asher" <masher@tusc.net>
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Date: 15 Nov 1996 20:52:16 GMT
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Article: 15986 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Newsgroups: alt.agriculture.misc, alt.org.earth-first, alt.politics.economics, alt.politics.greens, alt.save.the.earth, alt.sustainable.agriculture, sci.agriculture, sci.econ, sci.energy, sci.environment, talk.environment
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Organization: db Technology
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References: <542t7d$iep@rainbow.rmii.com> <32665F05.112@ilhawaii.net><JMC.96Nov10090026@Steam.stanford.edu> <565ehv$qm9@agate.berkeley.edu><01bbcf5b$bd8e1700$89d0d6cc@masher><567f46$2prt@sat.ipp-garching.mpg.de> <56d2l3$k1q@agate.berkeley.edu><56dm1s$cv@netnews.ntu.edu.tw> <JMC.96Nov13210117@Steam.stanford.edu><jcbud0r6tq.fsf@kbhr.ilo.dec.com><JMC.96Nov14091510@Steam.stanford.edu><jc20dvbonv.fsf@kbhr.ilo.dec.com> <JMC.96Nov15093727@Steam.stanford.edu>
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John McCarthy <jmc@Steam.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> .. In fact there is as much energy
> available as mankind is likely to want. Bernard Cohen has calculated
> that the uranium from the sea at reasonable extraction costs can
> supply humanity for 5 billion years.
Since environmentalists are so deadset against us adding uranium to the
sea, I wonder how they'll react to us trying to take some out. I can
already hear the calls for impact studies to ensure no fish will be harmed
by lower uranium levels....
--
Mike Asher
masher@tusc.net
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand
miles from the cornfield."
Eisenhower
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