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\centerline{Quotes Relevant to the Politics of Energy}

``Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important
as a wild and healthy planet.  I know social scientists who remind
me that people are part of nature, but it isn't true.  Somewhere
along the line---at a about a billion years ago, maybe half that---
we quit the contract and became a cancer.  We have become a plague
on ourselves and upon the Earth.  It is cosmically unlikely that the
developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil fuel
consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of
landscape.

Until such time as {\it homo sapiens} should decide to
rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus
to come along.''

\noindent -David M. Graber, National Park Service biologist in the
Los Angeles Times.
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``If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for
us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy
because of what we would do with it.  We ought to be looking
for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't
give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could
do mischief to the earth or to each other.''

\noindent- Amory Lovins in {\it The Mother Earth}---Plowboy
Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p. 22

``Giving society cheap, abundant energy $\ldots$ would be the equivalent
of giving an idiot child a machine gun.''  Paul Ehrlich, ``An Ecologist's
Perspective on Nuclear Power'', May/June 1978 issue of
Federation of American Scientists Public Issue Report

``We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and
great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we
should be making anyhow for other reasons.'' - Russell Train,
{\it Science} 184 p. 1050, 7 June 1974
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``Some cures must be employed even though they involve the deployment
of more expensive or less convenient technology than those employed
today.  For instance, the development energy mobilizing technologies
that do not deposit CO2 in the atmosphere must be promoted.  Especially
promising are solar cells to produce electricity and its use to produce
hydrogen as a portable fuel.  A possibility that should remain in the
 {\it potential} ``mix'' is a future generation of nuclear-power reactors
that are designed with safety as a primary consideration and that
produce a minimum of nuclear waste.''

\noindent - Paul and Ann Ehrlich, {\it The Population Explosion}, 1990.
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