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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (200102)9/5/2012 1:47:59 AM
From: Metacomet  Read Replies (1) of 541851
 
That's a bit of a shift from the gas tank image

...and interesting essay

Like a lot of what passes for scientific discourse, I fear professor Smail may be using a bit of statistical voo-doo to create a case that may not emerge

Speaking of gross population is a bit tough to wrap ones mind around

Do they all get put into a butter and then spread evenly around the planet?

Or will they be subject to more regional and local economic systems, that typically self regulate such phenomena as population by the expedient of inherent limitations on resources

His numbers may well bear out, but at a local level

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