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From: rmb@intelob.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.news.group,net.misc
Subject: Re: people organizing to pursue their beliefs
Message-ID: <145@intelob.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Jul-84 11:31:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 24 11:31:39 1984
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Organization: Intel Corp, Hillsboro, OR
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My recollection of the works of the Club of Rome, especially the
much-publicized "Limits to Growth", was that they were political
polemics masquerading as "scientific" studies. The Limits to Growth
purported to prove that by the mid-1980's the world would be
running out of all sorts of non-renewable resources, especially
oil; the "proof" was a computerized macroeconomic model whose
assumptions were somewhat simplistic (e.g. world energy consumption
would continue to increase at the rates that had prevailed in the
'60s, regardless of the order-of-magnitude increase in price
resulting from the '73 oil embargo!) and whose stability was
extremely suspect.  All in all, a classic case of GIGO on which
many column-inches of newsprint were wasted.

Bob Bentley                    "...for in spite of all temptations/
                                   to belong to other nations/
Intel Corp.                        he remains an Englishman"
Hillsboro, Oregon
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