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From: Steve <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: Perceptions of sustainability
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>Sorry I was being a tad sarcastic, I thought it was obvious, sorry for
>the confusion. Are you now advocating a "no pollution goal"? I think
>that such a goal would have an extremely high cost, perhaps a cost so
>high as to be considered infinite. Of course this makes the
>impracticality of a pollution permit trading scheme seem almost
>ridiculously simple by comparison.
>
Yes, same as I'd propose a "no crime goal." Goals are always reached, that's
why they are called "goals."
So what if it costs a lot? Where does it say in Darwin that ecology should
be effecient?
Steven J. Bissell
http://www.du.edu/~sbissell
http://www.responsivemanagement.com
Our human ecology is that of a rare species of mammal
in a social, omnivorous niche. Our demography is one of
a slow-breeding, large, intelligent primate.
To shatter our population structure, to become abundant
in the way of rodents, not only destroys our ecological
relations with the rest of nature, it sets the stage
for our mass insanity.
Paul Shepard
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