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2-7-2008 8:29 AM

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"We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves." - Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/34f6cb12-4133-49eb-b102-378f5dff55ca/34021335-BD5D-4CA8-A055-BABCCC55C846/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/the-endless-pursuit-of-unnecessary-things/?ex=1217912400&en=08e308eabb5ccff8&ei=5087&excamp=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=+NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18" href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/the-endless-pursuit-of-unnecessary-things/?ex=1217912400&en=08e308eabb5ccff8&ei=5087&excamp=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=+NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18" style="font-size: 11px;">dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/the-endless-pursuit-of-unnecessary-things/?ex=1217912400&en=08e308eabb5ccff8&ei=5087&excamp=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=+NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/img/A5386A01-C034-4571-BCFE-ADEEF8D6A7C3" alt="chicken processinng palnt" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/the-endless-pursuit-of-unnecessary-things/?ex=1217912400&en=08e308eabb5ccff8&ei=5087&excamp=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=+NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18"><H2 class="post-title">‘The Endless Pursuit of Unnecessary Things’</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/the-endless-pursuit-of-unnecessary-things/?ex=1217912400&en=08e308eabb5ccff8&ei=5087&excamp=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=+NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18"><P>Amid the flow of Super Tuesdays, Superbowl surprises, news about faltering energy projects and rising solar cities, I’ve been collecting threads that relate to a central theme of Dot Earth: the implications of humanity’s growing numbers and resource thirst.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/the-endless-pursuit-of-unnecessary-things/?ex=1217912400&en=08e308eabb5ccff8&ei=5087&excamp=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=+NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0206-L18"><P>This paper echoed ideas I explored in 2005, when writing on Bhutan’s experiment with “<A href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/the-endless-pursuit-of-unnecessary-things/www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/science/04happ.html">gross national happiness</A>” as a substitute for the more familiar gross national product. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/34021335-BD5D-4CA8-A055-BABCCC55C846/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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