The unraveling of the earth's heritage can
be stopped, we think, by the attitudes and steps our contributors
espouse here. People do not have to go on being profligate with
resources that are not to be renewed. This is especially true
about oil, the unique resource that pervades present-day thinking
and that made today's industrial-age euphoria possible. They
can stretch it instead, to fuel the transition to other, enduring
ways of getting along with the earth. North American oil is but
a small part of the recoverable oil left on earth. Although we
in the United States are quite capable of using all fossil fuels
before our next centennial, we have more admirable capabilities.
David
R. Brower
