Looking beyond the vast technical difficulties of the energy crisis, this book seeks the basic reasons for the severity of our energy and environmental problems and finds them in our individual choices of lifestyle. It presents a scenario in which energy serves long-range human goals and values.

The contours of our energy future are most clearly presented as hard and painful choices. We can, for instance, maintain-perhaps even greatly improve-our current living standards, but at tremendous cost to our environment and to our physical and human resources. Alternatively, we can opt for a more humane society and in many ways a richer life with