Re: Growth
On Jul 2, 2007, at 7:00 PM, ravi wrote:
On 2 Jul, 2007, at 18:47 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: >
It is far from impossible that we could get forms of energy that pollute little or not at all, which would entirely change the
picture.I am curious: what gives you the above belief/hope/suspicion?
A naive faith in scientific progress? Because Gar Lipow says so?
I just get suspicious when people say something is inevitable. Maybe
it won’t happen, and maybe the neo-Malthusians are right. But I think
one should stay open to the strong possibility that they’re just as
wrong as the old Parson was.
Doug