From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Aug 22 2003 - 01:14:34 MDT
What you are describing is essentially an efficiency measure: how
much stuff can one liter of oil or kilo of sand be turned into, how much
useful work can be done with the total energy input to the society.
Phrased that way it sounds both much greener than "creation of unnatural
resources" ("MUHAHAHAH! Behold! I have created *unnatural* water,
Igor!") and easier to get good statistics about.
I think your main argument is essentially right. From an environmental
standpoint it is also rather obvious that resource efficiency is
something that you want to optimize beside ecological footprints (I hate
that silly term) - even if nation X has a smallish footprint it would be
better if it was more efficient in using it. Unfortunately I think the
current green movement often gets trapped in hunting footprints rather
than efficiency.
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension! asa@nada.kth.se http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/ GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Aug 22 2003 - 01:22:13 MDT