Volume 24, Number 5 · March 31, 1977
Selling the Sun
By Alexander Cockburn, James Ridgeway
Space Colonies
by T.A. Heppenheimer
Stackpole Books, 224 pp., $12.95 (to be published May 1)
The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
by Gerard O'Neill
Morrow, 288 pp., $8.95
Solar Energy and America's Future and Development Administration (ERDA) Commerce 5285 Port Royal Rd. Springfield, Virginia 22161
prepared by the Stanford Research Institute for the Energy Research
Available from National Technical Information Service US Department of, 104 pp., $5.50
In its most pessimistic rendering and to its most apocalyptic observers the energy crisis—omnipresent, irreversible—foretells the end of civilization. Slowly, but inevitably, the world will run out of natural gas, oil, uranium, coal. It is understood by all that modern man must move away from reliance on fossil fuel and toward other sources of energy. But such a move, entailing changes in the shape of Western society, seems impossible to accomplish. Instead the drive to develop more fossil and other nonrenewable fuels grows more intense. In the end this nightmare augurs a dying world.
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