In Both Rich And Poor Nations Consumption

I Was Recently Told, 'you're A Liar!' When I Said To Somebody I Walked Down The Spine Of The Andes. Every Spaniard In The Sixteenth, Seventeenth Century Did That. The Idea That Somebody Could Just Walk! He Can Jog Perhaps In The Morning, But He Can't Walk Anywhere! The World Has Become Inaccessible Because We Drive There.

We Have Failed...through Our Lack Of Responsible Awareness...and Thus Added To Suffering Around The World. All Of Us Are Cripples-some Physically, Some Mentally, Some Emotionally. We Must, Therefore, Strive Cooperatively To Create A New World. There Is No Time Left For Destruction, For Hatred, For Anger. We Must Build, In Hope And Joy And Celebration.

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.

The Future Depends More Upon Our Choice Of Institutions Which Support A Life Of Action Than On Our Developing New Ideologies And Technologies.

We Must Rediscover The Distinction Between Hope And Expectation.