given the pro-industrial pro-modern-world position of most of the posts on this thread (a kind of russellian pooh-pooh'ing of primitivism?) i am curious about what folks think about bodley's work on tribal people (for eg his interesting book: victims of progress) who, if he is to be believed, lived a life without these factories and fancy medical devices, that seem to be inalienable, in a sustainable manner.
--ravi