Gav One of my all time favorite photographs was the cover of national geographic, of an Indian taylor, wading in muddy water up to his neck. On his shoulder in his manual sewing machine he just salvaged form his flooded shop. the grin on his face, was ear to ear.
Yes the environment is important, because as the say, nature bats last. Just ask the inhabitants of the Easter Islands. Modernity and civilization are a double edge swords. On one hand it makes life good. I sometimes try to imagine a place without running water and sewage. Food supplies that are dependant on the weather, lack of modern dentistry and modern medicine. So the question is, how little can you have and get away with. I did watch the documentary "guns germs and steel" and it made me aware that your environment and food supply have a lot in determining whether society will go on and flourish or simply exist hand-to-mouth And to put it all into perspective, here a must see site http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/index_f.h tm take care khaled Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
