On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Bill Silvert wrote: "...even though one list member in an off-list message complained that since educated people make more and thus have larger footprints, education is bad."
The fallacies in that logic are terrifying. The author needs a decent course in formal logic and/or statistics (i.e. education). As an intangible good, education is one of the few "things" available to improve quality of life that does *not* necessarily increase footprint. Note that I am removing the general concept of education - the subject of the attack described above - from any accessory footprint we might associate with whatever we might consider "typical" education. I submit that there's more than one way to do it and this is a forward-looking conversation. If I remember correctly, improving quality of life often decreases the population growth rate. Correction or refinement of that belief would be welcome.
