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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
Jay Hanson <jhanson@ilhawaii.net> wrote:
> The corresponding
>human population is a function of per capita rates of material
>consumption and waste output or net productivity divided by
>per capita demand (Rees 1990). This formulation is a simple
>restatement of Hardin's (1991) "Third Law of Human Ecology":
>
>(Total human impact on the ecosphere) =
> (Population) x (Per capita impact).
This remarkable passage demonstrates ignorance of the meaning of
"function of", "Law" and "=". It confuses measurement with
arithmetical tautology. It blithly assumes that "impact" is
defineable, and that "ecosphere" is something separate from "human."
All in all quite a performance.
-dlj.
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