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...this nation will soon witness in living color, Illich's book could not be more timely. He contends that high energy consumption in a world of limited resources necessarily decreases equity and degrades social relations on a global scale. The book is a devastating attack on the developed countries' heedless and gluttonous abuse of the world's energy supplies and a primer for undeveloped nations with similarly reckless ambitions...
...unusual number of heedless motorists were stranded when they ran out of gas. Members of the Illinois Gasoline Dealers Association in Chicago banded together to deliver three gallons to each motorist who called, charging the pump price plus a $5 service fee and a $5 donation to the American Cancer Society. Their "hot line" logged more than 500 calls. Tow trucks on Los Angeles freeways dispensed so much fuel that by nightfall they were out and could only push cars off the roadway...
Decay. All in character, of course. Archer is as much loser as winner. In his wash-and-wear slacks and sports jacket he shoulders resentfully among the heedless rich and the heedless young who are the villains of Macdonald's recurrent daydream, and ours. Roughly at first, then with a rough man's compassion, he rubs their noses in mortality, the loser's truth. See the proud millionaire grovel, as Archer spades up the moldering past! See the sneering teenager whine, as Archer lays bare the certain decay that lies ahead...
Increasing opposition by conservationists and state government officials to heedless strip-mining and offshore oil drilling has also sharply limited the future exploitation of U.S. fuel reserves. Sums up S. David Freeman, director of a Ford Foundation study of energy: "Environmental goals and energy demands are on a collision course...
...full of examining their feelings and describing their inner thoughts--I don't think such introspection gets you anywhere.") In the article, Eiseley discussed the glacial epoch in relation to man's fear of nature, described our current world situation as the depths of winter, and deplored the "heedless ones" who want "liberation without responsibility" (here Mrs. Emmett looked over the clipping at me, nodding, and winked). She finished reading the article in her strong, clear voice and got up to see me to the door. "I'm glad you could come," she said, kissing me goodbye. "I really like...