July 1974
Greed, Fear, and Ignorance
We can have almost everything we want if we want it badly enough--but we have to pay the price
LAST YEAR, in a quiet valley in the Ecuadorian Andes, I visited Vilcabamba, a small village famed for the longevity of its inhabitants. The 1972 census showed a total population of 819 in Vilcabamba, and out of this number, two women and seven men were more than 100 years old. There are fewer than 7,000 centenarians in the United States, but if we produced these oldsters at the same rate as this tiny community, we would have more than 2,500,000 residents over 100. A phenomenal difference.
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