Subject: Re: [permaculture] politics and permies - Ghandi quote
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 12:29:44 -0800
Thank you for posting this.
He was definitely a visionary.
On 12/4/07, Charles de Matas <cdematas@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I read the following in an article in a local newspaper [Charles]:
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> 'As far back as 1928, Mahatma Gandhi, looking at western patterns of
> consumption, warned: "God forbid that India should ever take to
> industrialisation after the manner of the west. If an entire nation of 300
> million (India's population at the time) took to similar economic
> exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts."
> To think that Gandhi had not seen the wild consumerism that has enveloped
> most of the world - India included. He was a visionary. And we are blinded
> by the good times that we think will roll on forever.'
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