On 7 Nov 2003, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

> "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix at techmonkeys.org> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 03:01:42PM -0600, Tom Penney wrote:
> > >
> > > If everyone were like me the planet is STILL DOOMED! We better start
> > > killing off a whole bunch of people if we are going to save this planet.
> >
> >
> >         CATEGORY  	ACRES
> > 	FOOD    	5.2
> > 	MOBILITY 	1.2
> > 	SHELTER 	4
> > 	GOODS/SERVICES 	4.7
> > 	TOTAL FOOTPRINT	15
> >
> >
> >
> > 	IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
> > WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
> >
> > IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 3.4 PLANETS.
> >
> >
> > And they wonder why people think they're zealots.
>
> Um, which part of their estimate do you think is incorrect?
>
> Or are you suggesting that because they're "zealots" it's all bad,
> even if no particular part of it is actually incorrect?
>
What do they base it on?

I spent about an hour browsing about their site trying
to find out to no good effect.

They are also _obviously_ mixing "arable land" resources (food)
with industrial resources, not revealing the way they are doing
it, and then providing a lie based on "arable land".

What about fisheries? Tree farms (often on non-farmable land)?
Mines and wells? Greenhouses?

-- 
Daniel Taylor
dante at argle.org
Forget diamonds, Copyright is forever.


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