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\J	"We can and should seize upon the energy crisis
as a good excuse and a great opportunity for making some very
fundamental changes that we ought to be making anyway for other
reasons" - Russell Train, EPA Administrator, Science, 7 June 1974







"I see disturbing signs, however, that we are responding to the
energy crisis on the basis of the same old ideas and attitudes
that brought us to our present pass in the first place."







"All we have to do, we are told, is suspend pollution controls and
environmental standards and then pull out all the stops in an orgy
of exploration, extraction, and production that will give us enough
energy to let us resume once more our wasteful ways of growing and
living".  - more Russell Train







	"The space effort was, I suspect, the last hurrah of what seems
in retrospect our incredibly uncritical faith in the virtue of anything
that bore the label of 'science and technology' ..."







	"I am aware ... that the words "science" and "technology"
cannot be so indissolubly lumped together that we somehow come
to regard them simply as different versions or stages of the
same thing."  -  Train again







"More encouraging, if less obvious, is the possibility that persistent
energy shortages will make for desirable changes in the nation's
social and economic development, including some wholesome changes in
life-styles."  - Luther Carter, staff writer of Science, 28 Dec. 1973





ISSUES OF FACT


How dangerous are nuclear and other sources of energy?

What are the energy consequences of various policies
of encouragement or restriction?

What continued expansion of the American
material standard of living is possible?

What are the social consequences of differing
energy availabilities?

Can the whole world have an American material
standard of living?

Can America get the whole world an American
standard of living?
ISSUES OF VALUES


Is it good for people to live with
a high material standard?

What coercion or deception is
justifiable to get people to live
the way they ought?

Should all Americans or everyone in
the world have the same life-style?

Does America have an obligation to
solve India's food or energy problem?

What rights do trees have if any?

Is the present a good time or a bad time?

Is vandalism fun?


MUDDY ISSUES


Whose fault is the present situation?

Who deserves to have what bad thing happen to them?
ISSUES OF POLICY


Should nuclear energy be developed?

Should a limit be placed on energy growth?

Should a limit be placed on population growth?

How many probable deaths and how much risk
is energy worth?

IDEOLOGIES


Unlimited capitalist growth?

Unlimited socialist growth?

Engineers are devils?

Capitalists are devils?

"Here is the whole sad, sad story of how human folly has despoiled
the world's most magnificent continent.  "America the Raped" is
in the outraged tradition of "Road to Survival", "Our Plundered
Planet" and "Silent Spring".  They've stuck it to us, you and me,
for private profit.  Gene Marine has shown us where to lay the 
blame."  Peter Farb on jacket blurb of "America the Raped".
"Stated baldly, the third law of ecology holds that any major man-made
change in a natural system is likely to be detrimental to
that system."  - Barry Commoner in "The Closing Circle"\.