> I think the commitment arises from two lines of thought: one, that
> accepting that resources are limited permits imposing draconian measures
> of control and apportioning which inevitably further deprives the
> underprivileged; second, that resource exhaustion is not a "real"
> (pragmatic) issue of concern and is only a theoretical truth, a limiting
> case.
Usually the ideological commitment to denying resource exhaustion seems to be a big-tent Republican thing (capitalist libertarians to Bushian whackjobs). I can see why libertarians would get upset about the notion of use restrictions and planning, and conclude that the conditions requiring don't exist. The others... I dunno. Are dittoheads? Figure Jeebus is coming, so it's ok?
-- Andy