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Great article, lots of food for thought. The only thing that seems to be left out is agricultural productivity, which is fairly closely related to ecological p
by photochemsyn 4y ago
Great article, lots of food for thought. The only thing that seems to be left out is agricultural productivity, which is fairly closely related to ecological productivity.
Economics would be a more reliable field if it incorporated the work of people like the founder of ecological studies, G. Evelyn Hutchinson:
https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/4200-the-founder-of-modern-ecology https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/4200-the-founder-of-...
This becomes even more relevant as the global human population starts running up against basic resource constraints in many places.
- 1234letshaveatw 4y agoisn't it an inverse relationship? To make an acre of land arable you have to destroy an acre of "virgin" ecology?