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  1. Newsgroups: sci.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: Externalities (ws Re: Save the Planet and the Economy...)
  5. In-Reply-To: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov's message of 22 Dec 1992 02:14:38 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Dec21193551@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: <1992Dec21.041755.4485@pbhye.PacBell.COM> <72137@cup.portal.com>
  11.     <28105@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
  12. Distribution: na
  13. Date: 21 Dec 92 19:35:51
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  16. Who gets to say what the true costs of a certain activity are?  It
  17. allows enormous room for arbitrariness and political manipulation.
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  19. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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  21. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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