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
