On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Ingrid <[email protected]> wrote:

>> In the situation we currently find ourselves in as a species, it might be 
>> nomadic values - the limiting of wants to match available resources and the 
>> complete absence of asset accumulation, for instance - that are worth 
>> emulating rather than the physical characteristics of that lifestyle.

> No where in the past have humans limited their wants to match available 
> resources. If any, we are the only species that has managed to revitalise and 
> supplement earth's resources, simply because we wanted more.

Not true. Look up Japanese forestry during the Tokugawa era.

-- Charles

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