Energy and Equity

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Open Forum/Ideas in Progress
ENERGY AND EQUITl^
Ivan Illich
In this essay Ivan Illich demonstrates, by means of a detailed analysis of the way people travel, the imbalance which has arisen between industrial developrnent, social justice and personal freedom. He argues that speed is a source and tool of political manipulative power in rich as well as poor countries. The ideology of continual growth which informs both socialist and capitalist systems imposes intolerable social inequalities. The overconsumption of energy not only destroys the physical environment through pollution but, even more important, causes the disintegration of society itself. Illich's conclusion is to advocate a radical political decision to neutralize the energy crisis by the limiting of traffic. For it is traffic, based on transport, he argues, which corrupts and enslaves, and results in a further decline of equity, leisure and autonomy for all. In this provocative and incisively reasoned... Tovább

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fitaii
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Open Forum/Ideas in Progress
ENERGY AND EQUITl^
Ivan Illich
In this essay Ivan Illich demonstrates, by means of a detailed analysis of the way people travel, the imbalance which has arisen between industrial developrnent, social justice and personal freedom. He argues that speed is a source and tool of political manipulative power in rich as well as poor countries. The ideology of continual growth which informs both socialist and capitalist systems imposes intolerable social inequalities. The overconsumption of energy not only destroys the physical environment through pollution but, even more important, causes the disintegration of society itself. Illich's conclusion is to advocate a radical political decision to neutralize the energy crisis by the limiting of traffic. For it is traffic, based on transport, he argues, which corrupts and enslaves, and results in a further decline of equity, leisure and autonomy for all. In this provocative and incisively reasoned contribution to the politics of survival, Ivan Illich takes one step further the arguments advanced in his recently published Too/s for Conviviality.
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Some press opinions of Ivan Illich's Celebration of Awareness. DeschooUng Society and Tools for Conviviality.
"Illich's arguments are shrewd, open and passionate."
Raymond Williams, The Guardian
"He is a deeply stimulating thinker."
Times Literary Supplement
". . . stirring new hope in the hollow breast of at least one jaded 'revolutionary'." Philip Toynbee, The Observer
". . . full of hairy heresy and upsetting notions."
Jon Akass, The Sun "He seduces, cajoles and electrifies the imagination."
W. S. Sterling, Catholic Herald
" this is Illich's great gift: to make one angry enough to ask questions and care powerfully enough about the answers."
M. G. Michaelson, N.Y. Times
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