I'd say it's a bigger fallacy to equate all the world's resources to the situation for five specific metals.
For example, humans can't regenerate fossil fuels from its waste products. Jostein 2007/6/13, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Another fallacy, you don't have to believe it if you don't want to, but > the reason why Julian L. Simon won his bet with Paul Ehrlich is the same > reason we'll not run out of resources. You can read about it here if > you want to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrlich-Simon_bet In fact > one one of the important Metals expected to be in short supply by the > end of the last 20th century is now considered an abundant toxic waste, > can you guess which one? (It wasn't part of this bet). Sustainability > assumes no change and everything always changes. > > William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "P. J. Alling" > > Subject: Re: Global warming was: The Nine-spotted > > > > > > > >> Sustainability is a myth, so far progress has worked much better. (In > >> fact it's given a lot of people the luxury to worry about the planet, > >> rather than were their next meal is coming from). > >> > > > > > > Progress only works until you run out of the resources needed to sustain it. > > We'll get to that point, probably sooner rather than later, with a major > > resource. > > > > William Robb > > > > > > > > > -- > All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a dog. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
