¶ Doing What Needs to Be Done (2)
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Doing What Needs to Be Done:
“terminals. No scientist has ever been engaged to look at plumbing, to see how you take the human wastes which are full of energy and turn it to the energy account. Absolutely nothing’s been done about it.”
Q. But couldn’t the government do something on this, in the face of the energy situation and all?
A. “No congressman knows anything about it. I think someone new is just going to have to go out and invent the apparatus and go ahead and do it. None of the people in the horse and buggy industry could ever possibly have invented the automobile.”
Q. But why is there not more action?
A. “It remains so because of society’s world-around conviction that there’s not nearly enough life support for everyone, therefore it has to be for you and me. Therefore we have politics and ideologies which say, ‘You might not like my system but I have the fairest, most logical way of dealing with fundamental inadequacies.’ Politically, we have the last resort thinking of the survival of the fittest. And the last”
