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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> But are these areas really failures or areas where we haven't come as far
> as quickly.

I never called them failures, simply evidence of what I consider to be
basic, indelible human behavior.  To put it another way:

> Is it really a failure then, or just somewhere that hasn't progressed as
> fast as the cosy cotton-wool environments most of the rest of us live in?

That assumes that you credit the cosy cotton-wool environments with
being true signs of progress rather than simple temporary anomalies,
created through the exertion of trememdeous amounts of energy and
balanced on a knife-edge.  How long, for example, do you think your
rosy civilization in the UK would last if electric power generation
abilities were lost and fresh water stopped flowing into your citadels
of civilization, and do you know how fragile that infrastructure truly
is? :)

					Jordan