From: Hermit (hidden@lucifer.com)
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 10:54:41 MDT
I'd differ. It seemed fairly clear to me that Toynbee predicated advanced societies as being resource hungry - and he undoubtedly recognized that resources came in many forms (see e.g. his works on the mercantile principalities of the late renaissance. Following Toynbee's model (and I would tend to agree), the USSR failed only when it had run out of reasonably accessible resources. This suggests that had the US had similar constraints, it would have failed in the same way. And this does of course, remain a possibility while we remain locked into an energy constrained mixed agrarian/industrial resource base.
Another good reason to transform the world ASAP.
Kind Regards
Hermit
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