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Hi Sanjay,<br><br>
It's a major issue to be sure. But I'm not willing to concede
defeat.<br><br>
David<br><br>
At 03:28 PM 7/23/2012, sanjay jain wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">>These are important points
to discuss. I'm thinking of "desirable" in perhaps<br>
>a broader sense. How do we make smaller homes desirable? Or urban
living?<br>
>Or reduced consumption/materialism? In other words, how we
change our<br>
>habits and our image of what "the good life" is?<br><br>
Sorry, you're unlikely to affect people's thinking as long as there are
powerful commercial interests that need people to buy their crap....
tobacco being the most obvious example. <br><br>
~sanjay<br><br>
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