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Finiteness of natural resources[edit]

I added a quote by Simon to section Finiteness of natural resources. It can be found in Special:PermanentLink/1122933103. The quote speaks for itself and needs no comment. The perceptive reader will know what to think, I hope. Dan Polansky (talk) 18:36, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requirement of sources for wrong argumentation claim[edit]

The irony of this article is that in order to pronounce Simon's wrong argumentation to be wrong argumentation, we need reliable sources. But even that is not enough: We are not allowed to say in wiki voice that Simon spreads wrong argumentation but rather that critic C says so, turning the claim into a relative one. We would probably need to find a proponderance of sources to support the wrong argumentation claim, but it is much easier to find articles that praise Simon. What is one to conclude? Probably that W:cornucopianism is well and thriving, and that one needs to be "a madman or an economist" to believe these sorts of things. Dan Polansky (talk) 20:50, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]