Progress as if survival mattered: A handbook for a conserver society

Progress as if survival mattered: A handbook for a conserver society by Editors of Friends of the Earth. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780913890165.

The kind of country and world a growing number of people want -- will be less populace, more decentralized, less industrial, more agrarian. Our anxiously acquisitive consumer society will give way to a more serenely thrifty conserver society, one which relies most on renewable resources and least on the irreplacables. Recycling will be taken for granted and planned obsolescence wont. Nuclear proliferation will be viewed in retrospect as a form of temporary insanity. We will stride confidently and lightly along the solar energy path so ably scouted out by physicist Amory Lovins" ~ from the books Foreword ...An interesting study to see where the world was in 1977 as compared to today....how much progress in this direction have we made? ~ SGE