yes, soylent green and all:) but we probably don't want to go to far this road, lest we have to get into ecological politics and political economy, which would be off-topic, i think. heh. On Aug 30, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Ellis Godard wrote: > FWIW, the idea of "limited resources" is subject to dispute, as new > resources are created and new uses are found both for old materials and new > waste. As resources are redefined and rediscovered, opportunities for growth > expand - if not perpetually, at least incrementally. > > -eg Jeremy Hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso

apart from cannibalism - soylent ? - I am not entirely clear as to what "new resources" are being created? I thought the earth had a finite amount of exploitable stuff... waste has to come out of something otherwise there will be ever-less. there's always alchemy I suppose ;-) cheers mathieu ----- Original Message ----- From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> Date: Monday, August 30, 2010 7:09 pm Subject: Re: [CITASA] capitalism To: ellis.godard@csun.edu Cc: 'communication and information technology section asa' <citasa@list.citasa.org> > yes, soylent green and all:) > > but we probably don't want to go to far this road, lest we have > to get into ecological politics and political economy, which > would be off-topic, i think.  heh.  > > On Aug 30, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Ellis Godard wrote: > > > FWIW, the idea of "limited resources" is subject to dispute, > as new > > resources are created and new uses are found both for old > materials and new > > waste. As resources are redefined and rediscovered, > opportunities for growth > > expand - if not perpetually, at least incrementally. > > > > -eg > > Jeremy Hunsinger > Center for Digital Discourse and Culture > Virginia Tech > > > > Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. > --Pablo Picasso > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CITASA mailing list > CITASA@list.citasa.org > http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org **** Dr Mathieu O'Neil Adjunct Research Fellow Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute College of Arts and Social Science The Australian National University email: mathieu.oneil[at]anu.edu.au web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php