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0 pointskortilla3y ago0 comments

People had a much worse life expectancy back than. Babies frequently died. Treatable illnesses were just death sentences (e.g. type 1 diabetes).

> Modern living in convenient, but not healthy. Is luxurious, but not cheap. Is plentiful, but not sustainable.

You’re very confused if you think the way people lived in India 1000 years ago was sustainable. Packing up the village when a well ran dry should hint at something for you. It was both sparse and unsustainable.

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kumarvvr3y ago

By sustainability, I meant environmental sustainability. Indians cooked in earthen pots, ate in banana leaves, wore hand woven clothes and the local economies were largely self sufficient.

kortillaOP3y ago

You mentioned villages running wells dry and moving. That’s not sustainable.

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