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...particular, of what he considers idealistic attempts to transform native institutions into prototypes of American ones. "Why should we give up our traditions to come up to some criteria which you have set for us?" he complains. "It is industrialized nations who are setting these criteria--$1000 per capita income, T.V. sets, cars, If we were to define the criteria of your development, we would use different indexes: pollution, ecological hazards, abortion, debts, extramarital...
...country would seem to present a better case for nuclear power than Sweden. It has no petroleum, and so little coal that virtually none has been mined in 50 years. Its oil bill of $3.1 billion last year made it the world's largest per capita importer. On the other hand, the country has Western Europe's largest uranium deposit, the unmined 300,000-ton Ranstad lode in southern Sweden, which some regard as their future energy ace in the hole...
Accordingly, Stockholm plunged enthusiastically into nuclear power in 1972, and within five years, under Premier Olof Palme, Sweden was leading the world in its per capita use. In 1976, however, Palme's Social Democrats were unseated for the first time in 44 years, and successive governments have been alternately for and against nuclear energy...
...doubled since 1973 and Americans have yet to cut down on their driving. One poll of business executives showed that if gasoline reached $2 a gallon, they still would not curtail their driving. Economists predict that even if gasoline prices increase 300 per cent between 1980 and 2000, per capita auto ownership will go up 43 per cent and automobile miles travelled will increase 35 per cent...
Attempts to force conservation by imposing gasoline taxes are therefore unlikely to result in significant savings. Americans have proved notoriously unwilling to cut down the number of trips they make each day or to drive slowly for conservation. Public transit ridership has actually decreased from 56 rides per capita in 1955 to 25 rides since 1970. The only certain result of increasing gasoline prices is further inflation...