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No, you're far from the only one. While what makes for a materially content life varies a lot according to your outlook, it's generally so that it takes a lot to make us happy. When then we have gone from being relatively rare, like other large, demanding, long-lived, top-of-the-food-chain creatures to having a population on the order of that of the brown rat... I worry about its wisdom or sustainability.

We're going to need to reformulate economic and social policies in such a way as to support a declining population because this always more people model I cannot see lasting.

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'It depends on which research report you read,'says Hattie, 'and sorry about this, but I do tend to believe the ones that suit me.'

by JQL (deinikoi at gmail dot com) on Wed Feb 14th, 2007 at 08:11:25 AM EST
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New User, New User, everyone! (okay, second comment, not first)

Welcome to the Eurotrib, JQL. Hope to see you posting more in the future.

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Wed Feb 14th, 2007 at 08:54:05 AM EST
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