Alternative Fuels

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 18 08:20:31 PDT 2000


michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote:


>I agree but very often the discussion seems to imply that alternative
>technologies are an absolute rather than a relative good. Technological
>fixes can help, but they are far from sufficient.

Yes, and human life is imperfect and often disappointing; nothing is got for nothing, as Emerson said. What's your point here? Half the time I suspect you'd like us all to become hunter-gatherers.

Doug



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