The Limits-To-Growth lie (was The Ultimate Resource is people) Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: The Limits-To-Growth lie (was The Ultimate Resource is people)
# 12558 byhitssquad@... on June 7, 2012, 9:06 a.m.
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--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Victor Smith" wrote:
> Well then, if thats really what you consider the Ultimate Resource
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ajuliansimon.com%2Fwritings%2FUltimate_Resource%20%22the%20ultimate%20resource%20is%22
"Conclusion [...] Dec 23, 1993 The ultimate resource is people - skilled, spirited, and hopeful people who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit, and ..."
> then you should certainly be working hard to promote space settlement
By lying to people by spinning a tale about a supposed imminent depletion of resources on Earth? ...Or by telling them the truth -- that resources are not a reason to colonize beyond Earth, but that there might be other reasons for such colonization?