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...wood and fossil-fuel burning will never be eliminated, they can be cut down significantly. An immediate way to do so is through conservation. When oil prices soared in the 1970s, industries responded by becoming much more energy efficient. But the plunge in the price of oil from $36 per bbl. in 1982 to less than $12 per bbl. this fall has cooled the enthusiasm for conservation. Governments must rekindle that interest and boost energy saving by setting or raising minimum efficiency standards for automobiles, appliances and other machinery...
...BIGGEST BOOK FOR THE BUCK Weighing in at 7 lbs. and priced at $50, the new American edition of the French food encyclopedia Larousse Gastronomique, edited by Jenifer Harvey Lang (Crown), comes in at only 45 cents per oz., less than the price of fine veal or salmon. Rewritten and modernized in France, then translated in England and its measurements and ingredients Americanized, this essentially French work expands sections on China, Japan and the U.S. Too bad that the text and illustrations are so lackluster...
...half the earth's population growth rate during the next decade. "That means a call for a two-child family for the world as a whole," explained Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute. "In some countries there may be a need to set a goal of one child per family." That is a daunting challenge. During the past decade, many of the world's poor nations condemned the notion of family planning as an imperialist and racist scheme touted by the developed world. Yet today virtually all Third World countries are committed to limiting population growth...
When energy was expensive, Americans treated it that way. Between 1973 and 1985, when the price of oil surged, U.S. per capita energy consumption fell 12% and the average amount of goods and services generated per person rose 17%. In the past few years, however, energy use has risen as the price has declined. Americans, who own more than 135 million cars, or about one-third of the world's total, have been driving more and have resumed their love affair with large gas-guzzling cars...
...gallon of unleaded gasoline, which costs roughly 95 cents, is nearly a third cheaper now than it was eight years ago. When inflation is taken into account, the price decline is closer to 50%. Raising the federal gasoline tax by 50 cents per gal., from 9 cents to 59 cents, over the next five years would renew drivers' interest in fuel conservation...