In A Consumer Society There Are Inevitably

There Is No Greater Distance Than That Between A Man In Prayer And God

Even If Nonpolluting Power Were Feasible And Abundant, The Use Of Energy On A Massive Scale Acts On Society Like A Drug That Is Physically Harmless But Psychically Enslaving. A Community Can Choose Between Methadone And "cold Turkey"-between Maintaining Its Addiction To Alien Energy And Kicking It In Painful Cramps-but No Society Can Have A Population That Is Hooked On Progressively Larger Numbers Of Energy Slaves And Whose Members Are Also Autonomously Active.

Current Nationalism Is Merely The Affirmation Of The Right Of Colonial Elites To Repeat Historyand Follow The Road Travelled By The Rich Toward The Universal Consumption Of Internationally Marketed Packages, A Road Which Can Ultimately Lead Only To Universal Pollution And Universal Frustration.

The Myth Of Unending Consumption Has Taken The Place Of The Belief In Life Everlasting.

Healthy People Are Those Who Live In Healthy Homes On A Healthy Diet; In An Environment Equally Fit For Birth, Growth Work, Healing, And Dying... Healthy People Need No Bureaucratic Interference To Mate, Give Birth, Share The Human Condition And Die.