Keith Addison wrote: > > >Hey, come to think of it ... yes.... I do remember someone mentioning that. > > > >That the problem lies in (whoevers) draining the "principal" of nature's > >"assets" ... instead of leaving the "principal" alone and living off of the > >"interest" ("dividends") .... as our "savage" ancestors had done in earlier > >times. > > ... and as most of our not-so-savage cousins do now. > > Just exactly who's "savage" and who's "civilized" and who's > "primitive", who's "developed" and who's "less-developed" or > "developing", who's really "modern" and who's an anachronism (or > about to become one) all depends much on your point of view. > Regarding such matters many or most people in the Western (ie > industrialized) countries seem to live in a Hall of Mirrors - they > think they're all there is, either that or everyone else is trying to > become like they are. Not so.
Worse, they think that everyone _should_ be like them, so they try and _make_ everybody like them. AP -- Aviation is more than a hobby. It is more than a job. It is more than a career. Aviation is a way of life. A second language for the world: www.esperanto.net Processor cycles are a terrible thing to waste: www.distributed.net Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/