Word: conservationism
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To bail out the domestic fleet, Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington and Congressman Gerry Studds of Massachusetts have co-authored a bill that would extend U.S. fishing waters from the present twelve miles to 200 miles. But, fearing that foreign nations would reciprocate with 200-mile limits of their own...
National debate topics are traditionally selected from among very broad social and foreign policy questions, with affirmative teams free to narrow their analysis to specific issues. For example, this year's resolution that "the federal government should control the supply and utilization of energy in the United States" was often...
The key is to foster a new "conservation ethic," Sawhill said. The FEA is now advocating ways to reduce energy consumption during the summer. It is urging homeowners to run their air conditioners only on "really hot days," and then only enough to cool dwellings to 78°. To keep...
To Suzanne Keller, professor of sociology at Princeton, conservation can only succeed if Americans realize that the energy crisis is not "put on, contrived or false." They have drawn no such conclusion yet, she said, even though the oil embargo touched off a series of far-reaching social effects. Americans...
Energy prices would rise, and the poor would need some assistance. But, Moss said, such full-cost pricing would also allow the free market to allocate scarce resources properly and efficiently. It would lead to more use of mass transit, more efficient industrial processes and more conservation of energy.