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- From: Rodger_Madison@rand.ORG (Rodger Madison)
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- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 14:39:10 GMT
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- Kevin Brown says:
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- Could one, I wonder, successfully argue that there is a correlation between
- general energy usage and standard of living? I would think so, but I have
- no proof of this.
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- This argument was presented fairly persuasivly in a book called "Energy and
- Society" by a sociologist named Fred Cottrell. Going beyond that Prof. Cottrell
- argues that "the amounts and types of energy employed condition man's way of life
- materially and set somewhat predicatable limits on what he can do and how society
- will be organized."
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