--- Steven Bissell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I think I'm going to let this bone go; I'm starting to sound
> hysterical
> even to myself.
And I bet Jim is laughing at all of us. Funny how I am called evil
when he starts something like THIS!
Steve
>
> Steven
>
> Dada is not dead
> Watch your overcoat
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion forum for environmental ethics.
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gus diZerega
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:21 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Lomborg
>
>
> The basic idea of opportunity costs is simple - how it is used in
> policy
> debate is not.
>
> I agree that Lomborg is not really very forthright when he opposes
> anti-global warming measures with all those other good things. We
> are
> NOT given the opportunity to choose between them. Sort of like
> saying,
> the opportunity cost of my going to the movies is a small child
> starving
> in Somalia. There is something deeply dishonest and/or misleading
> about
> such a statement.
>
> BUT
>
> There is something to the notion. If I do X, I do not do what I
> would
> otherwise have done if I did not do X. Call it Y. The opportunity
> cost
> of doing X is Y. The notion is reasonable at this level.
>
> Gus diZerega
> Dept. of Politics
> Whitman College
> Walla Walla, WA 99362
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