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Define "no harm to the environment". Without undue harm to the environment might be better.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:22:56 AM EST
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A perturbation small enough so that it not affects sinificatively any other variable in the complex system...

Difficult to be sure but generally an order of magnitude analysis should be enough...so that, at least, it is just small as hundreds of other variable that already present in nature and can affet the system....
Not an easy think to compute but some people were trying.. the human footprint and all that stuff

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:32:26 AM EST
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I'm developing a sensitivity to comments that appear to consider humans to be unnatural or outside of the system, on either side of the debate.

It's making me crabby.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 10:34:07 AM EST
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like crab?

u r what u eat <snark>

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Jan 26th, 2006 at 01:58:59 PM EST
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