this mailing relates to "debt" and the economy in the broadest of terms

Subject: 
            a close vote ![Fwd: fyi, Curtiss[Fwd: You helped save the
Arctic Refuge!]]
       Date: 
            Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:53:44 -0500
       From: 
            "W. Curtiss Priest" <bmslib@mit.edu>
Organization: 
            Center for Information, Technology & Society
         To: 
            Brian Tynemouth <btynemou@acad.suffolk.edu>, Chris Sullivan
<CSull50357@aol.com>,
            "Dale Hattis (Clark)" <dhattis@clarku.edu>, Dave Gerson
<gersontc@attbi.com>,
            Dave Kaloupek <Barnstaba@aol.com>, Harry Stevens
<hstevens@smig.net>,
            Joanna Komoska <komoska@optonline.net>, Ken Komoski
<kkomoski@optonline.net>,
            Nick Ashford <nashford@MIT.EDU>, Patrick Logan
<engrpat@clipper.net>,
            Steve Spain <bartlett13@surfbest.net>, Suzanne Tynemouth
<stynemouth@yahoo.com>,
            "Cathryn Mercier (AT&T)" <cmmercier@attbi.com>, "Charley
Mussleman(rcn)" <c.musselman@rcn.com>,
            John Maglio <MAGNET@MIT.EDU>, Kirt Olson
<kolson@helios.acomp.usf.edu>,
            Mike Raisbeck <raisbeck@attbi.com>, Ray Bloom
<rmbloom@attbi.com>
        CC: 
            "List, Cyberspace Society" <cyber-soc@topica.com>,
            "List, Post-Careerist" <post-careerist@yahoogroups.com>


I presume that most of my friends that I e-mail, here,
are in favor of "sustainable development."

That phrase basically means that you and I should not
consume more energy than is transmitted via the sun
on any given day.

And, in 1973, I wrote a report, "Land Use and Energy
Conservation" which addressed both the desirability of
"cluster housing" and where I took an aerial map of
Worcester, and tried to determine how much of a day's
worth of solar gain would provide.

That was then, this is now.

I am confident that the consumption of fossil fuels greatly
exceeds even the most expansive collection of solar energy
in any given day.

(I wish I had the number).

And, we have a president and vice-president who have made
much of their money from oil, I doubt that they "get"
the idea that they are simply (during this one generation)
siphoning off solar gain that we received over millions
of years.

This, simply, will not continue.

We will, soon, become a planet that expends only as much
energy as the sun provides, per day.

Not this year, not next year, but soon.

Regards,

Curt
-- 


           W. Curtiss Priest, Director, CITS
        Research Affiliate, Culture & Media, MIT
      Center for Information, Technology & Society
         466 Pleasant St., Melrose, MA  02176
   781-662-4044  BMSLIB@MIT.EDU http://Cybertrails.org