Re: Julian Simon

R (rls@wenet.net)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:14:13 -0800

I may be speaking against the extropian principle of "dynamic optimism"
but I
think "dynamic realism" would do the faithful better. No one can
honestly
deny the environmental devestation we have wrecked on the planet, the
many
species we have driven to extinction, global warming, pollution, and
cancer.
You can't shrug that off as being "doom and gloom". It's reality like it
or not.
And as I receall, even Simon didn't say destroying Nature was a good
thing.

Rod

Mark D. Fulwiler wrote:

> "den Otter" <otter@globalxs.nl> wrote:
>
> > Mark D. Fulwiler <mfulwiler@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Julian Simon died this past Sunday at the age of 65.
> > >
> > > Mr. Simon's contributions to the extropian movement are
> tremendous. He
> > > believed in reason and optimism and continually argued against the
> gloom
> > > and doom environmentalists, always backing up his arguments with
> facts.
> > > The key insight in all of his work is that humans are the
> "ultimate
> > > resource."
>
> > Maybe a stupid question, but...did he get frozen? If not, why?
>
> I don't know. Does anyone?
>
> Mark Fulwiler