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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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