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

``   Giving society cheap, abundant energy ... 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

The space effort was, I suspect, the last hurrah of what seems in
retrospect our incredibly uncritical faith in the virtue and value
of anything that bore the label  of ``science and tecnology'' ---
a faith we backed not only with billions of public dollars in the
space program, but also with billions upon billions of private
dollars in the stock market.
%2Science%1 184 p. 1050, 7 June 1974

In my judgment, while the SST was a potential economic and environmental
albatross when considered 3 years ago, the new priority which we must
accord to energy efficiency should finally put to rest any plans to
squander further private or public funds upon the SST.
%2Science%1 184 p. 1050, 7 June 1974

"I am not particular about freedom."
"I think the Wall is a good thing, at least it has maintained the peace".
- J.K. Galbraith (in a (1977?) interview with Die Zeit.  Cited by
Anthony Flew, University of Reading in American Spectator, January 1982

"Much of what America needs to resolve its overwhelming social problems
has become embodied into the life of Jonestown and the works of
People's Temple" - Jane Fonda as quoted by David Evanier in National
Review. 1982 April 16

"Jim Jones is a rare, rare specimen.  Jim Jones is a symbol of what we
all should be about ...  Jim Jones is, in my opinion, a true human
being ... what you should see every day when you look into the mirror
in the early morning hours ... a combination of Martin Luther King,
Angela Davis, Albert Einstein, Chairman Mao ..." - Assemblyman
Willie Brown, same source.

"You're in the future all of a sudden.  Either this is the future or
there won't be any" - Mark Lane (same source).

In 1976 the L.A. Herald-Examiner named Jim Jones Humanitarian of the Year.

"What interest does someone trying to prevent a family from starving
have in the nuances of representative democracy?"
BC-SUMMER-07-08
    A TV REVIEW
    By Ed Siegel
    (c) 1983 Boston Globe (Independent Press Service)

"America is the most aggressive power in the world, the greatest threat
to peace, to national self-determination, and to international
cooperation.  What America needs is not dissent but denazification."
- Noam Chomsky. - As quoted from Eric Hoffer in American Spectator.

Were society's energy demands maintained by nuclear power for a
century, the disposal of these radioactive wastes would pose an
enormous problem.  Despite three decades of research, no disposal
procedure satisfying to all interested parties has been found.
Either they are too expensive or too risky.
 - p. 275, Wallace S. Broecker, How to Build a Habitable Planet.
Eldigio Press, LDGO Box #2, Palisades, New York 10964

A political party is about creating differences.
 - Jerry Brown, 1989 Apr 21, Stanford reported Stanford Daily Apr 24.

We have got to stop science and scientific progress... .  Complicated
facts and issues---ignore them.  Facts separate people.  The enemy
has facts and science.  You can't fall into their trap and use the
same language.  It's not what moves people to action.
 - Abbey Hoffman, as cited in Access to Energy 1989 June.

    ''While it looks as if at the moment communism has lost the battle
for hearts and minds in Europe, it certainly cannot be said that
capitalism as a total world view has won,'' Runcie said.
Nov. 1989 speech to European Parliament, runcie.ns[f89,jmc]

An Invocation for Earth Day: Hoping for the right virus

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.
	David M. Graber, National Park Service biologist in the
Los Angeles Times.
 - reprinted in Access to Energy, 1990 April
Would this man lie for his cause?  You bet.