Depression Blues
Why the recession is a blessing in disguise | Alice Thomson - Times Online
People tend to drink less, smoke fewer cigarettes and lose weight. They enrol in higher education, the air is cleaner, the roads are less crowded...people have more time to visit their elderly relatives and are more likely to look after their children themselves...those who have refused to be thrifty for green reasons have now to start rationalising their lives for economic ends. In the past six months councils have reported increased use of libraries and a fall in the quantity of household rubbish.
Now I'm really depressed...