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Energy and society

Abstract

The lecturer analyzes the consequences of human labour being displaced by material energy sources for the social structure and for political reasons. In this connection the dependence of social and economic mobility on energy abundance is discussed as well as the controversial hypothesis stating that abundant energy supply presents a prerequisite for social progress. The author examines more closely the fact that those favored most by an immense energy supply and by technical progress - the 'intelligentsia' of the western world - have come to take a dislike to the prerequisites of their prosperity and mobility as well as to their increasing influence on mass media, culture, and politics. The latest manifestation of this development is of particular interest; it consists in complaints of the so-called waste of energy and of the complex technology required if as many people as possible are to benefit from the advantages of energy abundance and of the high degree of technical developments. Finally, the picture of a future lack of energy is compared briefly with that of a future in which energy abundance will still increase due to environmental technologies.
Authors:
Publication Date:
May 01, 1978
Product Type:
Conference
Reference Number:
EPA-05-001118; ERA-04-016348; EDB-79-025438
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Gas- Wasserfach, Gas-Erdgas; (Germany, Federal Republic of); Journal Volume: 119:5; Conference: Annal meeting of the DVGW, Bremen, Germany, F.R., 9 - 11 May 1978
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL IMPACT; ENERGY POLICY; NATURAL GAS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; PETROLEUM; SOCIOLOGY; SOLAR ENERGY; ENERGY; ENERGY SOURCES; FLUIDS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUEL GAS; FUELS; GAS FUELS; GASES; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; 290200* - Energy Planning & Policy- Economics & Sociology
OSTI ID:
6610354
Country of Origin:
Germany
Language:
German
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: GWGEA
Submitting Site:
DE
Size:
Pages: 181-188
Announcement Date:
May 13, 2001

Citation Formats

Linden, H R. Energy and society. Germany: N. p., 1978. Web.
Linden, H R. Energy and society. Germany.
Linden, H R. 1978. "Energy and society." Germany.
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