First of all, thank you very much for your very interesting and helpful
comments.
Some additional thoughts / questions :
- I think that the economic boom is not only based on successful exports,
but must have its most important source in the local (=North American) very
high level of
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From: Steve Kurtz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
POPULATION GROWTH IS PIVOTAL ISSUE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
by Georgie Anne Geyer
WASHINGTON -- It's not working.
For years, people who were against family planning could argue, and
hope, and pretend, and weave tales about the glories of
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Thomas Lunde wrote:
I know it has been postulated before, but I think it is time, perhaps
evolutionary to make a conscious decision to outlaw war. If that requires a
world police force, so be it.
Be careful what you wish for!
I doubt you're suggesting that the US
I agree in general with Thomas' evaluations. Enforcing peace with the
threat of force seems a particularly perverse requirement, though. We
humans are alone in this particular dilemma, as ethics appears tied to
our form of self-reflective consciousness.
Steve
Thomas:
It would seem to me,
It's interesting that Jonathan Rowe's article of several years ago is again
making the rounds on the internet. It also showed up a couple of days ago on
the PEN-L (progressive economist) list. Rowe uses a pair of analogies with
psycho-analysis and medicine that could bear literal elaboration:
FIRST EU THREAT TO WITHHOLD FUNDING OVER ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 8, 1999 - The European Commission has told five
countries that they may not be eligible for European Union (EU) regional
aid money unless they properly apply European nature laws.
Published in cooperation
Was it for prohibiting use of hormones in cattle that the US just decided
to sanction EU?
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Steve Kurtz wrote:
FIRST EU THREAT TO WITHHOLD FUNDING OVER ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 8, 1999 - The European Commission has told five
countries that they
Work, Social Capital, and the Rebirth of the Civil Society:
A Blueprint for a New Third Sector Politics
Rapporteur: Mr Jeremy Rifkin, President of the Foundation on Economic
Trends, Washington, DC
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