Re: Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.)
On Mar 31, 2007, at 5:57 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
Why is it necessary for the earth to have more than four million
people on it? It is not necessary, but it is marvellous. People are
marvellous, and the more of them, the better.
I’m 100% with James on this one. Calls for a smaller population
really creep me out - they seem fundamentally misanthropic at the
core. It’s also wonderful that we can get to know so many of each
other; I’m incapable of any nostalgia for the world of little
villages or small tribes of hunter/gatherers. Sure that’s the product
of the world in which we live, but it’s an empty and abstract idea to
suggest that we could, or should, go back. The ickiness of capitalism
is that we could do so much better with what we have and know, not
that it’s destroyed the old.
Doug