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Non-Nuclear Futures. Case for an ethical energy strategy (1975)

AuthorAmory Lovins, John H.Price
Date1975
Classification 6.01.0.00/146 (GENERAL)
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SCIENCE/ECOLOGY

NON-NUCLEAR FUTURES

THE CASE FOR AN ETHICAL ENERGY STRATEGY

AMORY B.LOVINS
JOHN H. PRICE

This challenge to the assumption that nuclear power should, must and will play 
a large part in our future energy supplies moves beyond questions of mere technical 
feasibility to probe fundamental ethical, social, environmental, economic, and 
policy issues that should also influence our energy decisions.

Our energy choices reflect an imminent divergence: high-energy paths, which 
inevitably rely on centralized and electrified high technologies, versus lower-
energy, less wasteful paths, which could gradually come to rely on smaller-scale, 
often less electrified technologies for harnessing natural energy flows. The social 
differences between these two approaches are profound; the choices become more 
urgent every day.

"Amory Lovins is the real thing: an anti-nuclear polemicist whose arguments are 
so well organized, clearly expressed and extensively documented that even the 
most enthusiastic partisans on the other side will have to take notice .... His 
contribution both enlivens and deepens the Great Energy Debate."-The New York 
Times Book Review.

Harper & Row, Publishers
Cover design by John Clarke 
0-06-090777-0

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