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Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakhby Helena Norberg-Hodge
While providing an intimate look at Ladakh's traditional culture, Ancient Futures raises important questions about the psychological, social, and environmental costs of modernization.
Ladakh is a place of few resources and an extreme climate. Yes, for more than a thousand years, it has been home to a thriving culture. Traditions of frugality and co-operation, coupled with an intimate and location-specific knowledge of the environment, enabled the Ladakhis not only to survive, but to prosper. Then 'modernization' arrived, ostensibly as a means to 'progress' and 'real' prosperity. Now in the modern sector one finds pollution and divisiveness, intolerance and greed. Centuries of ecological balance and social harmony are under threat from pressures of Western consumerism. |
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