Comments on: The Road to Hell http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/06/21/the-road-to-hell/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Prashant Mullick http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/06/21/the-road-to-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Prashant Mullick Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/06/21/147#comment-254 >This is because the universe is complex and all its parts are interlinked and so when you do something to one bit of the universe, you end up disturbing the whole universe. There must be many reasons why we cannot see all the connections. For some reason this reminds me of Janna Levin's book, How the Universe got its Spots. She talks about how we cannot see the actual shape of the Universe due to our limited abilities. Even if the Universe was bananashaped and finite in size, we would not know it so if we might be sitting on the surface that seems to be infinite. Something similar to the effect of the surface of the earth seeming to be flat rather than spherical. Sorry for the unrelated comment since this has nothing to do with Ecology/Economics but just a tangential thought that came up on reading that zeroth law of ecology you mentioned... :-) >This is because the universe is complex and all its parts are interlinked and so when you do something to one bit of the universe, you end up disturbing the whole universe.
There must be many reasons why we cannot see all the connections.

For some reason this reminds me of Janna Levin’s book, How the Universe got its Spots.

She talks about how we cannot see the actual shape of the Universe due to our limited abilities. Even if the Universe was bananashaped and finite in size, we would not know it so if we might be sitting on the surface that seems to be infinite.

Something similar to the effect of the surface of the earth seeming to be flat rather than spherical.

Sorry for the unrelated comment since this has nothing to do with Ecology/Economics but just a tangential thought that came up on reading that zeroth law of ecology you mentioned… :-)

]]> By: Niket http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/06/21/the-road-to-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Niket Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/06/21/147#comment-255 Atanu, One of the side-effects of the population control regime is likely to be a further skewing of sex ratios (# females per 1000 males), which are already reaching an alarmingly low numbers. http://us.rediff.com/news/2004/jun/22girls.htm I am all ears for your extrapolation of how a population control regime will be beneficial, using examples of externally imposed controls being counterproductive in the long run. Atanu,
One of the side-effects of the population control regime is likely to be a further skewing of sex ratios (# females per 1000 males), which are already reaching an alarmingly low numbers.
http://us.rediff.com/news/2004/jun/22girls.htm

I am all ears for your extrapolation of how a population control regime will be beneficial, using examples of externally imposed controls being counterproductive in the long run.

]]> By: Atanu Dey http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/06/21/the-road-to-hell/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Atanu Dey Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/06/21/147#comment-256 Niket, for my views on the matter, do a search on this blog for "sex ratio". Niket, for my views on the matter, do a search on this blog for “sex ratio”.

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