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Re: The Limits To Growth



In <56o321$rt1@news.inforamp.net> dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones)
writes: 
>
>atanu@are.Berkeley.EDU (Atanu Dey) wrote:
>> Blightly calculating
>>that there are only 700 million malnourished people in the world
>>and not 800 million is great for nitpicking on the usenet.  

I wonder what "blightly" means: "blithely", "brightly",
or is it derived from "blight"?

>>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.

Yes, from thinking what it is like to the hundreds of millions
who have been saved from misery. 
Statistrics of hunger and disease matter a lot;
but the numbers of healthy, happy people in the world,
of children with a future of hope, matter the most, and are
increasing the fastest. We are living in times of wonderful progress 
and promise. The next century will probably see the end of world
poverty - which indirectly poisons the life of even
affluent nations. Future looks brighter than ever.
The main obstacles on the way are environmentalists
and regulators.



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