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Re: The Limits To Growth



atanu@are.Berkeley.EDU (Atanu Dey) wrote:

>Bertrand Russell wrote that the sign of a truly civilized human being
>is the ability to read a column of numbers and then weep.  I think
>that there are too many people who have a great facility with 
>arithmetic - just like computers: full of number crunching ability
>and no capacity for wisdom, empathy or compassion.  Blightly calculating
>that there are only 700 million malnourished people in the world
>and not 800 million is great for nitpicking on the usenet.  But
>can we comprehend what it must be like to be each of those 700 
>million?  
 
Surely it is good, also, to be able to read a column and jump for joy.
That the number of the hungry is shrinking, in both numbers and in
proportion to the whole of humanity, is reason for great celebration.
 
                                     -dlj.
 


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