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Warpy

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Sun Jan-06-08 11:13 PM
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2. I cringe when I hear "voluntary simplicity"

because for me, for far too many decades, it was involuntary. My carbon footprint is ridiculously small simply because I couldn't afford the lifestyle of a normal healthy person who could work full time and get health insurance.

I guess it's voluntary simplicity now, though, since I got so damn good at being poor that I see no reason to change.

I'm glad you found a good group. For those of us who live in less enlightened areas, groups like vegetarian societies and the like are also generally involved in leaving small footprints on a fragile earth.

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