Message-ID: <34263ECB.D012D11@mail.ptl.com.mt> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 11:47:55 +0200 From: "V.Dimitroff" <mailto:vdimitroff@MAIL.PTL.COM.MT> Subject: IGNORANT! DANGEROUS! To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Jay Hanson wrote:> The human enterprise has now exceeded the carrying capacity of
> planet Earth. [1]
The quoted W. Rees article and all the sources quoted therein do NOT prove such a statement. After pages of quiasi-scientific arguments (where nearly-mathematical formulae are based on dozens of assumptions, most of them questionable), the author reaches a "Conclusion" which states NOTHING! There is no scientific statement in the conclusion, only green-evangelist rhetoric (appropriate for a journalist, not for a scientist) - which leaves the reader wondering what the whole article wanted to prove.
Many people blindly embrace and repeat such groundless statements, not realising the HARM they cause to the environmental cause (of which this humble poster is an ardent supporter).
Think positive and, most important, THINK!
V. Dimitroff