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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
John McCarthy <jmc@Steam.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Yuri Kuchinsky includes:
>
> World Food Organization reports that over 800 million people
> are starving on this planet right now. Get rid of your pink
> glasses.
>
> I'm sure that "starving" isn't the word that was used by the World
> Food Organization. If 800 million were starving, and the report was
> from last year, we would expect them to be dead by now.
The proper word is 'malnourished'. The worst cases are generally in
socialist countries like Ethiopia and North Korea.
--
Mike Asher
masher@tusc.net
"To argue with those who have renounced the use
and authority of reason is as futile as to
administer medicine to the dead."
-- Thomas Paine
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