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  1. Newsgroups: talk.environment
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: Population Growth and the Bet that Paul Ehrlich Lost
  5. In-Reply-To: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU's message of 23 Aug 92 11:42:07
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Aug23150413@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  10. References: <JMC.92Aug20175215@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Aug21.034026.4921@vexcel.com>
  11.     <JMC.92Aug20232000@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <25113@castle.ed.ac.uk>
  12.     <JMC.92Aug23114207@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  13. Date: 23 Aug 92 15:04:13
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  16. It occurs to me to add that if James Hammerton is worried about
  17. exploiting low paid workers, he should make sure he only uses copper
  18. imported from the U.S.  The $514 per week average pay of an American
  19. copper miner in 1989 was probably more than almost anyone in the
  20. Edinburgh AI Laboratory received.
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  22. --
  23. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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  25. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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