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e.g. recently I've been looking into the Persian Santur but have been unable to find a reliable source of tuning information (https://music.stackexchange.com/questions/101000/how-is-the-...).
My impression is most of these houses are small not tiny (not that there's anything wrong with that).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_temperament [2] http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/
You might think differently if for example you are an OAP struggling to pay heating bills or you live in Sao Paulo and the taps don't always work.
Agreed, some form of internet will probably survive for quite a long time, but that is addressed in the article.
There's plenty of information out there about water problems (California's loss of ground water for example).. I can't really post those articles though as they're not directly relevant to HN.
If he claimed to be say an Economist, then I would be more sceptical.