> If everyone does it right, it's "sustainable". Not the way you're talking about it, it's not. If we're LUCKY, it's sustainable over our lifetime. If we aren't, well, ask a manufacturing sector employee who lost his or her job. > Oh... you meant something else? ;-) (Poke, poke.) Sustainability is about maintaining for the long term (at least until a new ice age or asteroid or gamma ray burst wipes us out) a post- neolithic lifestyle for ALL humans on the planet. Maybe I'm shooting high. Mike -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist