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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 704632" data-attributes="member: 2189">Klein,&nbsp;If you read Kirkpatrick Sale&#039;s observations, his finding showed the major factor was size of population not geographic size. Sure it&#039;s cheaper to provide something down the street or across town verses 100 miles away but then that gets to my point of thinking and acting local. In the case of the Inuits you spoke of requiring extra cost to have stuff shipped up, did you ever consider the problem is that gov&#039;t wanted these people to live like folks from somewhere else where resources for such life are plentiful yet unavailable where the Inuits live? Maybe this explained why their own native customs and folkways seemed so different to us yet worked very well for them in that environment. Take their ways and customs and mandate them as a matter of law and how available are resources in our locale to live that lifestyle without extra work to do so? &nbsp;Why do we always assume everyone else must always live like us? Sometimes they are using the best allocation of resources and sustainability and we think they lack understanding of good fiscal economics. Seems to me we continuely prove we are the ones that lack the understanding.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 704632, member: 2189"] Klein, If you read Kirkpatrick Sale's observations, his finding showed the major factor was size of population not geographic size. Sure it's cheaper to provide something down the street or across town verses 100 miles away but then that gets to my point of thinking and acting local. In the case of the Inuits you spoke of requiring extra cost to have stuff shipped up, did you ever consider the problem is that gov't wanted these people to live like folks from somewhere else where resources for such life are plentiful yet unavailable where the Inuits live? Maybe this explained why their own native customs and folkways seemed so different to us yet worked very well for them in that environment. Take their ways and customs and mandate them as a matter of law and how available are resources in our locale to live that lifestyle without extra work to do so? Why do we always assume everyone else must always live like us? Sometimes they are using the best allocation of resources and sustainability and we think they lack understanding of good fiscal economics. Seems to me we continuely prove we are the ones that lack the understanding. [/QUOTE]

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