From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:16 AM
To: alt.atheism.moderated
Subject: Re: evidence of god? for Latta(!), Holtz [G Riggs]


"Paul Filseth" <pgxf@lsil.com> wrote in his brilliant article:

> It will almost surely continue to get easier in the future,
> just as it always has in the past.  If there were any good reason to
> think it will get harder, speculators would be bidding up the price of
> minerals.  Yet the prices keep falling.

This point is well-made in Julian Simon's awesome book
_The Ultimate Resource_. In 1980, Simon bet eco-doomsayer
Paul Ehrlich that a basket of any five metals of Ehrlich's
choice would by 1990 be cheaper (after inflation) than in
1980. Ehrlich lost the bet and in 1990 had to pay up.
http://www.overpopulation.com/faq/people/julian_simon.html

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