Re: Re: Re: We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
Unfortunately Rod does not understand what Yoshie is saying. It is simply wrong to say "the problem is with the social system not with the technical feasibility." The problem is precisely with technical feasibility and it is mystification to argue anything else. If you think another social system

Re: Re: Re: Re: We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Rod Hay
London (1830) Economic pundit X: If the economy continues to grow at its present rate, in fifty years we will all be buried in ten feet of horse shit. Rod -- Rod Hay [EMAIL PROTECTED] The History of Economic Thought Archive http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html Batoche Books

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread M A Jones
From your database of 1, you produced a profound sample, no? Now, however, let's talk about fossil carbon and what it means and what it does, or else stop wasting our time. Mark Jones http://www.egroups.com/group/CrashList - Original Message - From: "Rod Hay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

RE: Re: :We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread Mark Jones
Eugene Coyle wrote: MA Jones seems to be changing his position. On the one hand he says we are running out of oil and there is nothing anyone can do about it. So What's to organize? What does this mean? That you prefer to inhabit a world of illusion on condition that illusory organising

Re: Re: Re: :We used 10 times as much energy in the 20thcentury as in the 1,000

2000-06-28 Thread JKSCHW
Tarawa is an atoll. The battle was fought on the big island, Betio, which, however, is still pretty small--is there really room for 30,000 people there? Even scattered through the islands, that seems like a lot. Betio is pretty flat, too. Where is this 260 foot elevation? --jks In a message