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ginians will have to learn to live with.
WELL, maybe so, but that still doesn’t mean that Virginians shouldn’t stop fighting to preserve their beautiful heritage. And if the powerline fight made some people stop and think a little bit about what all this “progress” and upto-date living really means, then it will have accomplished a lot.
Electricity just isn’t a trouble-free magic genie, after all. Flipping a light switch or turning on an electric razor puts into effect a far-flung sequence of events that means not only “labor-saving” conveniences, but the ravages of strip-mining, the tyranny of ever-increasing rates, and the ugliness ofeverlarger powerline installations. “Ecologists,” nature-lovers, conservationists, “bug and bunny people,” the citizens who have pointed out that technological development is not an unmixed blessing, to say the very least, have been widely castigated and reviled. It’s time everyone started paying closer attention to what they’ve been saying. □
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