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Shops will be built eventually, along with a refrigeration plant, laundry, bakery, and five additional hotels. There is talk of constructing a shopping center under a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome which would be air-conditioned to offset temperatures that reach 125°. Another problem to be overcome is the water shortage. Yehoshua Shapiro, the Caravan Hotel manager, who wears a jacket, tie and cuff links in spite of the heat, says: "We get our water by tank truck from a military desalination plant down the road. If the tanker breaks down, we're in trouble." Even so, Shapiro intends...
...Fuller emphatically opposes the burning of fossil fuels (oil, coal), which not only are in limited supply on earth but also pollute air and water. To go on using oil and coal, he wrote...
Total System. Fuller prefers tapping the sun's "cosmically inexhaustible energy" or harnessing the tides, possibly in the Bay of Fundy. In addition, he would like to see all nations and continents hooked into a global energy grid, with electricity flowing efficiently across time zones to meet distant peak-hour demands. He envisions "a total-humanity sustaining system" that would decrease birthrates and increase longevity. In short, Fuller's poetic excursion was mind expanding, if not mind exploding...
Muskie took some time to unravel Fuller's visionary verse. But last week he replied in the Times with 44 lines of his own bad poetry. After reeling off a few contemporary images-"nemesis clouds," "putrid smoke," "noxious oxides"-he got to Fuller's Maine point...
Muskie has no power to block the proposed refinery at Searsport. Still, as a potential presidential candidate, he ended his answer to Fuller on the right hortatory note. Allowing that the U.S. has "the knowledge, the skill and the treasure" to save its environment, the Senator thundered: "Only our dedication -commitment-is in doubt...