Message-ID: <32FFA2C6.3F9C@mind.net> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 22:35:50 +0000 From: "B. Diamond" <mailto:bdiamond@MIND.NET> Subject: Re: THEORY: "Knowledge is anti-entropic" -Reply To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
mailto:EUNSteve@AOL.COM wrote:> As you know, Ehrlich has in the past advocated mass starvation as the only
> practical way to return the world's population to levels he has advocated .
> Some of our well known environmental organizations have also suggested such
> "solutions."
Ehrlich did not "advocate mass starvation," he merely pointed out (as have numerous other scientific reports) that mass starvation will likley result if we continue on our present path. While unfortunate, and perhaps unavoidable, such a reduction in population would ease the pressures on a over-utilized system.
> If that entropy threat is indeed blatant nonsense, as the physicists of the
> world suggest, we have many more than the hundred years granted to us by The
> Club of Rome, giving us time to create new wealth for the world to enjoy,
Ah yes, more wealth! The true meaning/purpose of our exisitence.
BD