tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post6827316072396341951..comments2024-01-10T11:19:56.456-08:00Comments on What Is Sustainable: Greenland DreamsWhat Is Sustainablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-26706371443353873792013-09-09T16:47:44.670-07:002013-09-09T16:47:44.670-07:00PS: While on another project, I looked at Wikipedi...PS: While on another project, I looked at Wikipedia's page on:<br />List of countries by suicide rate<br /><br />Greenland is #1, and the rate is more than three times higher than #2, South Korea.<br />What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-61894373501000209492013-09-03T15:24:13.453-07:002013-09-03T15:24:13.453-07:00GG: Yes, indeed!GG: Yes, indeed!What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-26913607189669642592013-09-02T21:26:11.034-07:002013-09-02T21:26:11.034-07:00You remind us that there is a better way to live.You remind us that there is a better way to live.Gary G.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-9940679084007638592013-08-27T19:17:44.056-07:002013-08-27T19:17:44.056-07:00Personal property has a long history of generating...Personal property has a long history of generating lots of social friction.<br /><br />I'm not one who thinks that everyone everywhere has always been violent. I suspect that violence is usually the shadow of crowding.<br /><br />But in Greenland, the long, long, intense, dark winters added extra emotional strain. Eskimos called it "perleroneq" (Arctic hysteria). It sometimes inspired folks to kill innocent bystanders or themselves. The dogs got it, too.What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-56534410965247330782013-08-27T05:38:40.688-07:002013-08-27T05:38:40.688-07:00This reminds me of the report of a European anthro...This reminds me of the report of a European anthropologist on the native acquisitiveness, greed and violence of a particular isolated African indigenous tribe.<br /><br />In order to gain acceptance by them for his study, he gave some of them their first steel knives as "gifts". Then he reported how others coveted and fought over these "gifts", dutifully noting his "scientific" observations of their inherent violence.Riversonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05413657075902226702noreply@blogger.com