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12 Jul 2007 06:01 pm
A War and Energy Conservation
We did it before:
In the 1940s, Americans simultaneously battled fascism overseas and waste at home. My parents, their neighbors, and millions of others left cars at home to ride bikes to work, tore up their front yards to plant cabbage, recycled toothpaste tubes and cooking grease, volunteered at daycare centers and USOs, shared their houses and dinners with strangers, and conscientiously attempted to reduce unnecessary consumption and waste. The World War II home front was the most important and broadly participatory green experiment in U.S. history. Lessing Rosenwald, the chief of the Bureau of Industrial Conservation, called on Americans "to change from an economy of waste--and this country has been notorious for waste--to an economy of conservation." A majority of civilians, some reluctantly but many others enthusiastically, answered the call.
Why not again?
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Excerpt: Via Andrew Sullivan and Bradford Plumer I find this great essay in the Sierra Clubs magazine by Mike Davis, on how the United States adapted to a war-production economy in the 1940s. A taste:
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