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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Dale Baker who wrote (23019)7/6/2006 4:38:59 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (2) of 541376
 
I am in despair about the lack of any rational control over growth. I visit Arizona several times a year, and the see the orange groves and cotton fields being converted to subdivisions and Walmart Supercenters.

We are basically in a situation where people expect infinite growth in a finite system. That implies to me that humans will eventually experience the same thing that bacteria do when they use up the agar in a Petri dish.

Here are the components of the index which is the basis for the PowerShares Water Resources (PHO) ETF mentioned in my previous post...

Palisades Water Index
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