To: "New York Times" <letters@nytimes.com> |
Re:
Article of 1 November 2002,
"Scientists
Say a Quest for Clean Energy
Must Begin Now”
Dear Sir/Madam, The quest
for clean energy (and
sustainable economic activity
in general) should have begun
in earnest 30 years ago, when
the non-sustainability of our
economic course and the
lifestyles it engendered first
entered public awareness, only
to be played down, denied or
ignored by the all too human
blindness born of
short-sighted self-interest. Now, instead
of being well on the way to a
sustainable economy and
lifestyles - which is the only
alternative we have to
extinction - we are heading
inexorably towards
catastrophe. Because of the vast differences in scale, what took just seconds to become apparent when Apollo 13's life-support systems were damaged on its way to the Moon, is taking years aboard Spaceship Earth. but for those with eyes to see, the signs are clear enough.
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