Word: antigrowth
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...Antigrowth sentiment has been swelling for years, but the biggest push came from the appearance last winter of a 197-page book, The Limits to Growth, which avowedly aims at "a Copernican revolution of the mind" (TIME, Jan. 24). It was prepared by a team of 17 scientists, ranging from an Iranian population expert to a Norwegian specialist on pollution. The study was begun by Professor Jay Forrester, an M.I.T. pioneer in computer analysis of likely future trends, and completed by his 30-year-old protege, Dennis L. Meadows, a business professor who has recently moved from M.I.T. to Dartmouth...
...long-term solution, Luce last week suggested a new federal excise tax of "perhaps 1%" on electric bills to speed new ways of generating power compatible with the environment. Until that luminous day comes, Luce is prepared to take an antigrowth position that other utility men might consider heresy. Urging New Yorkers to turn off unnecessary lights and appliances, he raises "the serious question of whether we ought to be promoting any use of electricity...