I am troubled by your answer to question #637. Perhaps I am misinterpreting your intent, but as I read your answer you are denigrating the idea that "exploiting natural resources to human advantage" might be a good thing to do for the people that the Peace Corps volunteers are trying to help, that is people who live a marginal or even a sub-marginal existence. Even keeping in mind that "development" can be, and generally has been, very destructive, your answer seems to exclude any consideration of the possibility of "sustainable development" as a workable and useful concept. • Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn