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From: Steve <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: Perceptions of sustainability
>Yes Corey it is that simple. It is that simple because ALL firms
>pollute to some degree. Thus, ALL firms are engaged in criminal
>activity and since zero pollution is the goal then you shut down ALL
>firms. Why is this so difficult?
>
>This is why I think the costs of reducing pollution to zero can for
>all intents and purposes be considered infinite. Given this, shutting
>down all firms is not an option and neither is achieving zero pollution.
>
OK, so Steve, where do you draw the line? Do you let the firms via economic
incentives decide when to pollute and how much? Is that a good solution? I
hardly think so. That's how it use to work before NEPA and the firms that do
pollute decided to not put any limits on themselves.
And, I think the assumption that *all* firms pollute is nonsense.
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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