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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Space Solar Power
Message-ID: <350@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 14:53:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  7 14:53:24 1983
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I quite agree:  there ARE no quick fixes.  Furthermore, there are no
permanent fixes, even including conservation and 'appropriate technology'.
(I suspect my definition of 'appropriate' may be broader than yours,
but let that pass.)  The best we can hope for from any technology is
to move the 'threshold of catastrophe' farther away.  Coal mines
and woodstoves are having visible,tangible effects on our environment
right now, while satellite power may pose threats a hundred years
away.  Personally, I'll take the hundred-year threat over the this-week
threat any day.  You may call this 'mortgaging our posterity's futures';
I call it 'trusting to  our posterity's intelligence'.
 
Betsy Perry
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