Word: conservationism
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Putting a lot of chips on conservation and solar power
In large part, the book is popular because fervid environmentalists can find in it justification for their thesis that nuclear power and coal are dirty, dangerous and unreliable, while solar energy and conservation are good and can provide the necessary energy. Yet the authors take pains to distance themselves from...
The book's basic thesis, which was reported in Foreign Affairs and TIME last spring, is both conventional and incontestable. It is that the nation's four basic fuels-petroleum, natural gas, coal and nuclear-are either depleting or face strong public opposition, and new energy sources must...
Ironically, OPEC's greed may yet inspire a determined conservation and development strategy to break free of dependence on imported oil.
Sawhill proposed then radical methods of cutting fuel consumption, like setting thermostats at 78° F in the summer. Bicycling to a Face the Nation interview was one of the ways he dramatized the need for conservation. He also advocated a 10?-to 30?-per-gal. increase in the gasoline...