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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (61197)10/4/2002 7:04:54 PM
From: TimF   of 82486
 
1 - Water. The limit to desalinzation or melting glaciers is mainly a limit of energy. Energy has in the long run become more plentiful and cheap (in real terms not nominal dollar terms). I'm not sure that this trend will end any time soon. Even without desalinzation a lot of good can be done by charging market prices for water. Don't subsidize water for industry or agriculture make them pay the true unsubsidized cost of doing business and you will see less water wasted. I would consider waste in this case not only water that is used to no productive ends but water that is used to produce things that would be better to produce in areas with more fresh water and where the value of the finished good is not enough to justify the use or the water.

2 - The air tends to get healthier as countries get rich enough to care more about cleaner air then a bit of extra wealth. The US and Europe are getting cleaner. I expect countries like Mexico to eventually follow.

3 - A problem to be sure but I don't think it is a world wide perminent limit to growth kind of problem. I expcet that in 100, 1000, 10,000 and 100,000 years we will be able to treat most common diseases much better then we can now (assuming civilization does not collapse before those dates)

Tim
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