From: paul_tweedy@polk.com
Date: Wed Nov 06 1996 - 10:19:46 MST
On Nov. 6 'gene writes:
>But that's what physics and extrapolation says. You can't lick Malthus,
>nor exponential growth in a limited universe, not on the really long
>run.
paul writes:
'gene, what the hell are you talking about? Since when is Malthus one
of the prophets of the future? Didn't the massive failures of the
predictions of Paul Ehrlick *the Population Bomb* from the Sixties
based on the extrapolations of Malthus teach us anything about the
creative power of the human mind to overcome such simple entropic
pessimism?
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