Once again you miss the point, from the linked page. Yet, it is significant that /"All of the former's [Ehrlich's] grim predictions had been decisively overturned by events. Ehrlich was wrong about higher natural resource prices, about "famines of unbelievable proportions" occurring by 1975, about "hundreds of millions of people starving to death" in the 1970s and '80s, about the world "entering a genuine age of scarcity." In 1990, for his having promoted "greater public understanding of environmental problems," Ehrlich received a MacArthur Foundation Genius Award."/
William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "P. J. Alling" > Subject: Re: Global warming was: The Nine-spotted > > > >> Another fallacy, you don't have to believe it if you don't want to, but >> the reason why Julian L. Simon won his bet with Paul Ehrlich is the same >> reason we'll not run out of resources. You can read about it here if >> you want to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrlich-Simon_bet In fact >> one one of the important Metals expected to be in short supply by the >> end of the last 20th century is now considered an abundant toxic waste, >> can you guess which one? (It wasn't part of this bet). Sustainability >> assumes no change and everything always changes. >> > > Ok, not quite done. > > >From the above linked page: > "Paul and the other scientists knew that the five metals in the proposed > wager were not critical indicators and said so at the time.... " > > So, you are basing your arguement on non critical indicators? > How clever of you. > > William Robb > > > -- All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a dog. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
