Re: Energy Biofuels Brainstorming then evaluating for policy development Stubbling on marginal issues Re: switchgrass concerns

Thanks for the idea, Cliff. It would be great if a summary were posted on a place accessable to all kinds of ecologists. In addition, I would suggest to also try to send the article to newspapers, to also inform the general public that do not have access to or know of the ESA blog. There are a lot

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Re: Bigger Gun to Shoot the Feet

It's certainly true that economic growth and conservation efforts are antagonistic with each other. But when you think about it, economic growth really stems from population growth. That seems to be a much harder pill to swallow for most people. -George Wang On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 00:28:45 GMT, [E

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Re: Bigger Gun to Shoot the Feet

George writes: > It's certainly true that economic growth and conservation efforts are > antagonistic with each other. But when you think about it, economic growth > really stems from population growth. That seems to be a much harder pill > to swallow for most people. The first inclination is

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Re: Bigger Gun to Shoot the Feet

That=92s right, and for the U.S., the figure I obtained a few years ago = was that four times the economic growth (since 1900 as i recall), was at= tributable to per capita consumption than to population increase. I don= =92t have the citation handy. There appears to be a very useful article on

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Re: Bigger Gun to Shoot the Feet

as more evidence for what Wirt wrote: Most Eastern European countries as well as Russia have declining populations (Ukraine is down nearly 10% from its peak population) but expanding GDPs. Economic growth really depends on population as well as per capita consumption. The important question, to m