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...LINDBERGH: It's quite clear that we cannot keep on this same curve of consumption of natural resources. They just aren't there. But we are not going to return to the ways of life we had before, either. We've got to achieve a balance. My own feeling is that the quality of life was better in my grandfather's time than it is in ours. My wife and I have a little gasoline generator to provide power in our home in Hawaii. Because of the fuel shortage, we stopped using...
...LINDBERGH: It took flying for me to realize what was happening to the surface of the earth, actually seeing...
...LINDBERGH: If you flew over an area that you remember, in the West for instance, it would certainly look very different. The erosion from both water and wind is very clear, as is the slashing down of forests in many, many areas. Maybe the most noticeable thing for you would be looking down on the coastal area, seeing how great cities, towns, villages, tremendous housing masses extend to the horizons, spilling over mountains where farms and orchards used to be. But in order to use well, in order to exploit, you also have to conserve...
...LINDBERGH: I think it is inevitable that we come to government control of natural resources. I see no way to preserve world resources without that control. Obviously, we have to have oil and energy in the future. But how do we balance this with where the lines go and how much is taken...
...LINDBERGH: I've never had more enjoyable times than with some tribal peoples who have, of course, almost no wealth by our standards...