Originally Posted by Andrewl

In the same amount time it has destroyed the lives of millions of indigenous and poor people around the world. And many of the benefits for us will turn out to be mainly illusory as we hit the limits of production and the limits of ecology.

Besides, measuring the benefits is impossible to do since nobody agrees on a standard. Its not exactly clear that we are any more content as consumers as the plains indian were as a hunter/gatherers.

Andrew