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Subject: [OM] Re: Seriously who can afford one of these?
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:55:34 -0700
Jan Steinman wrote:
>
> There's just something about someone who claims genes are "selfish" that 
> gives it more punch, 
It certainly has panache.
> than taking the words of someone who was so stupid he couldn't predict the 
> discovery of fossil fuel, and the  
> *temporary* reprieve that gave us.
>   
I am far from an admirer of Malthus. Still, it seems unfair to blame 
anyone for lack of prescience.

When some nut discovers a way to spray sand with some cheap concoction, 
let bake in the sun for a while, stick electrodes in it and generate 
essentially unlimited, almost free power, will today's Malthusian 
equivalents have been fools for not seeing the next thing that long 
delays the inevitable reckoning?

I am not, by the way, agreeing or disagreeing with the doom-sayers here, 
only addressing your characterization of Malthus as a fool - for the 
wrong reason.

Moose

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