> Gee, isn't it easier to try to break or drastically reduce our addiction to > fossil fuels?? > > arthur
More to the ultimate point, we ought to try to break or drastically reduce our addiction to ENERGY altogether!!! I like Lovins's approach, which I take to be: what energy you do need, obtain in the most sensible (cheapest, least damaging, etc.) way and engage seriously in a *political* exercise about what you/we actually *need*; that is, get involved in a discussion about needs and wants and be sure to include what sorts of social arrangements seem the best. In other words, AL would very much endorse the wide-ranging discussion that goes on here at FW, from nuts & bolts to visionary politics & "philosophy". I am suddenly reminded of the wonderful discussion about energy & civilization which occurs in the last chapter of Lewis Mumford's *classic* TECHNICS AND CIVILIZATION. The book is still in print and still widely used, I think. I wonder if any of it has been excerpted and can be found on-line. best wishes, Stephen Straker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vancouver, B.C. [Outgoing mail scanned by Norton AntiVirus] _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
