Autarky
Autarky
[quote=Wikipedia]A self-sufficient economy is one that requires little or no trade with the outside world and is called an autarky.[/quote]
The earth, as a whole, is an autarky.
Is there a country that can be a full-fledged, authentic, autarky? If not, which country can come closest to being one?
North Korea comes to mind; however it is autarky-like under international (read American) pressure.
[quote=Wikipedia]A self-sufficient economy is one that requires little or no trade with the outside world and is called an autarky.[/quote]
The earth, as a whole, is an autarky.
Is there a country that can be a full-fledged, authentic, autarky? If not, which country can come closest to being one?
North Korea comes to mind; however it is autarky-like under international (read American) pressure.
Comments (16)
Ignoring just the Sun and (that massive comet-asteroid deflector) Jupiter – yeah Earth is otherwise (thermodynamically & celestial mechanically) "self-sufficient". :eyes: :roll:
The Sun & Jupiter are implicit in autarky. Nevertheless, if hair-splittining is your thing, you have a point.
Would you agree that the Solar system, as a whole, is an autarky (as long as the Sun's nuclear fuel lasts)?
You got me thinking. Just like Jupiter, do ya suppose all the other planets too provide some kind of life-promoting/sustaining service to earth? Gravitationally, all the planets, acting in unison along with the Sun maybe keeping earth locked in the Sun's Goldilocks zone. In a sense, the entire planetary system around a star is critical to life on one of them. So, Jupiter's the vacuum cleaner (sucking up asteroids & comets. Shoemaker-Levy 9), Saturn's the..., Mars' the.... (fill in the blanks).
Yeah – ignoring the Milky Way (with the supermassive blackhole at the galactic center c27k light years away from Sol).
:snicker: True, as per Chaos Theory, nothing at all is negligible...our ignore list should be a blank page. So much for simplicity.
[quote=Sean Carroll]The Big Bang is not the beginning of our universe, it is the end of our understanding.[/quote]
If you knew the physics, that should be, exactly not.
A confession of ignorance...
But hey, it's Carroll!
No. That's when it started, to culminate right here and now! :rofl:
:chin: Gracias.
He means we don't understand what came before it? "We're working on it!" And the money inflow is ensured. Even for asking him a question (without a guarantee on an answer!) you have to pay 4 dollar... Dear mother of god...
Bhutan.
Quoting 180 Proof
If one ignores the Sun, no life is possible. Nor if you ignore the rest of the universe.
:snicker:
Bhutan = The self-contained, self-sustaining, ever-expanding, universe! Possible! Why not?
Or
Another North Korea!
In Druk Yul all people are religious. What about North Korea? The religion of the Supreme Leader, the Great Leader, and the Dear Leader?