Keith writes: >A very industrialised post-modern view, Ken - ie, naively >pessimistic. :-) Your "REAL" hasn't applied to most humans >who've lived, and still doesn't to most now alive, who're >neither industrialised nor post-modern, for the most part. >Maybe they'll succeed in skipping this little blip in history >altogether, eh? Along with its pessimisms.
If by people who're "neither industrialised nor post-modern" you're thinking of the Yanomamo, you MAY be right, but I think it's just the absence of a written history that allows us to romanticize them and attribute great ethical standards to them. The Native Americans, commonly praised for their ecological sensitivity, could also be very brutal, and were probably spared from decimating their environment only by their low and sparse populations. And if you mean anyone more modern, like say, in developing African nations, or in central or southern Asia, well..... enough said. Mind you, I'm not saying people are all wretched, just that they've never had a reputation for choosing the reasonable, prudent, or RIGHT course, and I wouldn't expect them to start now. 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/
