Charles Haynes wrote: > 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. Sure. And there are numerous other examples too. But Chandrachooran raises a valid point about /usually/ not limiting wants to available resources. -- Alok Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. [Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.]
