Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Parts 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 |
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... decline of a very large neighborhood . Such unintended consequences are a potential danger in energy policy . In energy policy it is important that Congress be alert to the long- term detrimental consequences that can easily follow from ...
... decline of a very large neighborhood . Such unintended consequences are a potential danger in energy policy . In energy policy it is important that Congress be alert to the long- term detrimental consequences that can easily follow from ...
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... decline . It is from the dynamics of the life cycle that the phrase " limits to growth " has emerged . If there were no limit to resources , energy , water , pollution dissipa- tion capacity , or land area , then growth of population ...
... decline . It is from the dynamics of the life cycle that the phrase " limits to growth " has emerged . If there were no limit to resources , energy , water , pollution dissipa- tion capacity , or land area , then growth of population ...
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... decline in standard of living . Today , one commuter per automobile , electric lights left on pending one's return , and entire houses heated for one or two occupants , all exemplify an attitude that energy is almost free . Such ...
... decline in standard of living . Today , one commuter per automobile , electric lights left on pending one's return , and entire houses heated for one or two occupants , all exemplify an attitude that energy is almost free . Such ...
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... decline in U.S. stocks - on - hand . For instance , if we look at old crop carryover of wheat , we find that has dropped to about a quarter of its 1971 level . We find for domestic cotton stocks , that declined to less than a third of ...
... decline in U.S. stocks - on - hand . For instance , if we look at old crop carryover of wheat , we find that has dropped to about a quarter of its 1971 level . We find for domestic cotton stocks , that declined to less than a third of ...
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... declined two - tenths of a percent while the birth rate ( 14,8 ) was about 1 percent lower than the rate a year earller ... decline . There were 163,000 marriages reported for November 1975 , 10,000 fewer than for November 1974 . The ...
... declined two - tenths of a percent while the birth rate ( 14,8 ) was about 1 percent lower than the rate a year earller ... decline . There were 163,000 marriages reported for November 1975 , 10,000 fewer than for November 1974 . The ...
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Page 100 - •Ibid., p. 157. considerations as a view of the countryside accordingly come second. On such matters we are consistent.) 1'hey picnic on exquisitely packaged food from a portable icebox by a polluted stream and go on to spend the night at a park which is
Page 101 - airmattress, beneath a nylon tent, amid the stench of decaying refuse, they may reflect vaguely on the curious unevenness of their blessings. 1 Some interpretations of employment policy take it for granted that private enterprise investment should always be given the first claim on resources and
Page 143 - Non-durable goods: food and kindred products; textile mill products: apparel and other textile products; lumber and wood products; paper and allied products; printIng and publishing; chemicals and allied products; rubber and plastic products. General selected services: hotels, motels,
Page 120 - The Buddhist point of view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: to give a man a chance to utilise and develop his faculties: to enable him to overcome his ego-centredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and
Page 160 - With a high degree of confidence we can say that the intuitive solutions to the problems of complex social systems will be wrong most of the time. Here lies much of the explanation for the problems of faltering companies, disappointments in developing nations, foreign-exchange crises, and troubles of urban areas.
Page 100 - air-conditioned, power-steered, and power-braked car out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, blighted buildings, bill-boards, and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground. They pass on into a countryside that has been rendered largely invisible by commercial art. (The goods which the latter advertise have an absolute priority in our value system. Such aesthetic i
Page 20 - 12. Increasing literacy and education and (recently) the "knowledge industry" and increasing role of intellectuals. 13. Innovative and manipulative social engineering—ie, rationality increasingly applied to social, political, cultural, and economic worlds as well as to shaping and exploiting the material world—increasing problem of ritualistic, incomplete or pseudo rationality. 14. Increasing universality of the multifold trend. 15. Increasing tempo of
Page 119 - Right Livelihood" is one of the requirements of the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path. It is clear, therefore, that there must be such a thing as Buddhist economics. Buddhist countries have often stated that they wish to remain faithful to their heritage. So Burma: "The New Burma sees no conflict between religious values and economic progress. Spiritual health and material
Page 125 - it has had so far. As you would expect, the degree of substitutability is also a key factor. If it is very easy to substitute other factors for natural resources, then there is in principle no "problem." The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion
Page 111 - between environment and the reckless exploitation of man and earth in the name of efficiency. Industrial civilization has promoted the concept of the efficient man, he whose entire energies are concentrated on producing more in a given unit of time, from a given unit of