How can someone who promotes sustainability and simplicity nonetheless maintain that "We need public policies that help people become happier — things like national health care, social security, and shorter work hours"? Cecile Andrews endorses the welfare state -- this isn't a shocker, really. I don't know how she thinks these programs can be funded if peak oil is reality and the days of the industrial and so-called knowledge are limited. Besides, she doesn't understand that the welfare state undermines the moral agency that makes happiness possible in the first place.