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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
On 13 Dec 1996 02:23:28 GMT, sync@inforamp.net (J McGinnis) wrote:
>dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones) wrote:
>
>>On 12 Dec 1996 19:00:33 GMT, sync@inforamp.net (J McGinnis) wrote:
>>
>>>dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones) wrote:
>
>>>>This just isn't true. This may seem like a small point: our
>>>>destructive potential was far greater ten years ago than it is today.
>>>
>>>Prove it.
>>>
>>>>In that decade the overall number of nuclear weapons in the world has
>>>>declined by perhaps as much as 40%. All the major powers, including
>>>>France and China, have ratified and come under the aegis of the
>>>>nuclear test ban treaty. The Union of South Africa has given up its
>>>>nuclear weapons, and the nuclear weapons programs of Iraq, Egypt and
>>>>North Korea have been halted.
>>
>>There is your proof.
>
>So... by simply snipping everything I wrote to dismiss this in the
>first place, your proof is achieved? You can do better than that.
No. The proof was there all along. I was simply pointing it out to
you. The stuff of yousr that I snipped was not even faintly relevant
to this basic point. You simply nattered on and on denying what is
clearly and visibly true: we have less destructive potential today
than we did ten years ago, and we continue to lessen it.
-dlj.
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