[Stultis]

But the little brown people are happy in their mud huts!</enviro-limo-lefty mode>

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Having just come back from India, I can report that they are, in fact, happy. The least happy people were the emerging middle class.

If you have enough to eat, a few clothes to wear and place to sleep, combined with human beings around you that you love, large amounts of material wealth are not necessary for being happy.

Gosh, you know the last paragraph I wrote sounds an awful lot like the preachings of a famous philosopher. What was his name? Oh, right - Jesus.

It s fine to complain about how leftist environmentalist policies potentially hinder economic development, but don't forget not to offer alternative solutions and that wealth and happiness are not one and the same.