We were watching a TV documentary on the Amish and it struck us that, leaving aside the cult thing, they had the answer to sustainable living and saving the planet some 200 years ago by eschewing rampant consumerism.
OK, so we wouldn't have reached the moon, but the only reason we need to get to the moon and beyond in the first place is because, like a cancer, we're destroying the world we live on.
I wonder if there are such things as secular Amish?
An interesting bit of information we gleaned is that, because their parcels of land are finite, many of their children who don't stand a chance of inheriting any land to work, are now being forced to work in industry, where they're renowned as hard workers.
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