Word: conservationism
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Writer Byron, convinced that Americans are the "true villains who waste depletable resources," has embarked upon his own conservation scheme. Last fall, just before he wrote a TIME story on what he calls "forest power," Byron installed two woodburning stoves in his Connecticut home. The move, he reports, "took $1...
On paper, the U.S. at long last seems to be tempering its petroleum profligacy. Annual growth in demand subsided from 5% as recently as 1977 to 2% last year. But nearly all the improvement has come from conservation by industry, while individuals blithely go along wasting fuel. Not only has...
It is doubtful, for instance, that rising prices will bring about enough conservation to cut oil imports sharply.
It is unfair to say that Americans are unwilling to reduce energy consumption. They have not been asked to do so as part of any long-range conservation effort. Our leaders should be looking to the future and providing us with a national environmental plan. Such a national plan could...
THE SENSIBLE WAY to encourage conservation is to attack the causes of high consumption: for instance, uninsulated homes and offices, huge investments in highway systems, and utility rate structures that reward large energy consumers. Higher prices have proven themselves an ineffective and costly method of forcing conservation.