Re: Al Bartlett on growth

[brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>]

At 10:30 11/8/97 EST, you wrote:
> ... Dave Bowman
> helped me with the appendix on thermo.  [This book refutes a statement by
> Julian Simon using sentential calculus and simple algebra (and U. N.
> demographic data).]
>
> Regards / Tom Wayburn

The thrust of Simon's position is that exponential growth continues
until it limits in some important factor, at which time it levels.
 Meanwhile population density improves measures of well-being in general.

 I would have thought that arguments describing disastrous overshoot and 
decay or runaway avalanches of homeostatic conditions would be an 
appropriate counter.

Sincerely


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK