Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981227185635.0138b100@mail.monmouth.com> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:56:35 -0500 From: Wilbur Streett <mailto:WStreett@MAIL.MONMOUTH.COM> Subject: Re: "eMergy" To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
At 12:00 PM 12/27/98 -1000, you wrote: >>For the benefit of all of the members of the "Technology Transfer in
>>International Development", could you please explain, in your own words,
>>what this has to do with this list?
>Hi Wilbur,
>I assume everyone on this list is interested in economic development.
>However, economic-development-as-we-know-it can not survive the
>depletion of oil.
You have made that assertion before, but it has nothing to do with Technology Transfer in International Development.
I think it was about a year ago when you claimed that all of Economics was subject to the "Laws of Thermodynamics" and I spent a lot of time proving than your position was based on a bunch of false assumptions.
>I thought, perhaps foolishly, that some people might be interested in
>their children's welfare.
I thought, that while I'm quite concerned about my children's welfare, that this list was about "Technology Transfer in International Development" and not about your wild rhetoric of how the World will end in 75 years or so when you claim that we will run out of oil. In case you missed it, oil prices are at an all time low. Oil is in abundance, and believe it or not, the people that are pumping it out of the ground would have raised prices if they thought that there was a shortage. It's called the "law of supply and demand".
>I am working on a twelve step program
Oh, AA?
Can you take your speculation off the "Technology Transfer in International Development" list? Or can you find some way to try to tie your position, (which I think that I've proven isn't based on concrete thought more than once), into the idea of "Technology Transfer in International Development" rather than using this almost unmoderated list as a platform for your off topic rhetoric?
I remember when there used to be a reason to read this list.
Wilbur Wilbur
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