Richard K. Moore <rkmoore@iol.ie> pukes and mewls:
>
> Bingo! Right you are: finite Earth, finite biolayer, finite ozone, finite
> markets... it's finite all the way down. Sustainability isn't an
> environmentalist slogan - it's a tough-love law of nature.
>
Infinite ignorance to be explored -- and the more we learn the more we
build pathways into that unknown.
Unbounded universe to be travelled -- and we've started sending tools
outside our local solar system in just the human race's first 40,000 years
of civilization.
Limitless innovation to be tried -- and the pig, the horse, the cow, cat,
dog and domestic orchids by the thousand are indications that we're pretty
good at it.
Sustainability is not a tough-love law of nature -- it's a bunch of whiners
settling for third best.
-dlj.