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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



Hanson quotes a text

                Investing in Natural Capital:
         The Ecological Approach to Sustainability

     from the International Society for Ecological Economics

CARRYING CAPACITY REVISITED


 that includes as part of its notion of
carrying capacity

     and 3.5 ha would be required to produce the biomass energy
     (ethanol) equivalent of current per capita fossil energy
     consumption.

This builds some of its conclusions into its basic assumptions without
any notice to the unwary reader.

What about solar energy?

What about the energy that breeder reactors can supply for the next 5
billion years?

-- 
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
During the last years of the Second Millenium, the Earthmen complained
a lot.



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