Re: How China is Dumping the Dollar

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:33:32 -0500, "David L. Burkhead"
<dburkhead@xxxxxxx> wrote:



<hal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47503062.70661015@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

http://www.dieoff.com/

Yeah, yeah, these folks and their ilk have been making their claims of
gloom and doom--often with redictions of imminent disaster, for literally
decades now.

never studied any ecology now have you? So take an exponentially
growing population of anything you want and put it in a constrained
environment, and guess what happens?


Touble is their "models" are based on so many hidden and outright false
assumptions as to be nothing more than fantasy that says nothing more than
the biases of the people presenting them.

yea, like putting an exponentially growing population of anything you
want in a constrained environment and being concerned about what
happens when the population exceeds the carrying capacity of the
environment. Really f'in complicate rocket science that is.


You might try getting hold of a copy of Dr. Jerry Pournelle's article
"Survival with Style" and related.

already got that part covered.

The assumptions of folk like the Club of
Rome, Erliche (author of "The Population Bomb") and others are pretty
thoroughly ripped apart.

yea right. Things like "carrying capacity" gets dismissed with
unrealistic assumptions like technology will always save us because it
has a few times in the past.


Just because they present some graphs and make some impassioned
arguments doesn't mean that they know what they're talking about.

so forget biological organisms since you seem to have trouble grasping
ecology, what happens when your exponential growth curve bypasses your
Y axis constraint?

Hal


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