Following soddy , georgescu-roegen and other ecological economists argue that wealth is real and physical .
洛根及其他一些生态经济学家论证认为,财富应该是真实且物质存在的。
Soddy criticized the prevailing belief of the economy as a perpetual motion machine , capable of generating infinite wealth - a criticism echoed by his intellectual heirs in the now emergent field of ecological economics .
The enormous power tucked away in the atomic nucleus , the chemist frederick soddy rhapsodised in 1908 , could " transform a desert continent , thaw the frozen poles , and make the whole world one smiling garden of eden . "