[PenultimateManStanding]

Why the Iron Age supplanted the Bronze Age. Very good article.

http://energybulletin.net/10128.html

[jaws]

So basically iron was backstop technology for bronze. Of course this article does not address the underlying problem that the forestry resources were not being properly managed. One laughs at Hammurabi declaring the death penalty for loggers, as if his government could control deforestation. Today just as 5000 years ago the only effective method of protecting natural resources is with strong property rights.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jaws', 'S')o basically iron was backstop technology for bronze. Of course this article does not address the underlying problem that the forestry resources were not being properly managed. One laughs at Hammurabi declaring the death penalty for loggers, as if his government could control deforestation. Today just as 5000 years ago the only effective method of protecting natural resources is with strong property rights.

[rogerhb]

I think the conservatives should be keen to reintroduce the death-penalty for logging as part of a back to basics campaign.

[jaws]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', '
')That might work for renewable resources like forests, but how does it work for oil or coal?