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inghouse, General Electric...powerful coporate forces that were handbuilt with federal subsidies,” he replied/
BUT THE energy crisis is here to stay' Clark said. We are now consuming in one year an amount of fossil fuels that it took 100 million years to create. And the use of petroleum products has already exceeded the rate predicted for 1980. /Some people looked to the construction of the Alaska pipeline as a partial solution to the problem of America’s dependence upon foreign sources of oil. But if America relied solely on Alaskan oil, importing' nothing from the Mid-east or. Venezuela, the Alaskan oil field would be depleted in just one year, Clark said.
“The numbers are against us if we continue this model of civilization—big highways, big farms...,” Clark said. “We’ve got to learn to think small.” '
We’ve celebrated the skyscraper as a symbol of progress, architecturally and technically, Clark said. But these buildings have not been designed with energy conservation in mind. The World Trade Center consumes the same amount of energy as some entire cities about the size of Stanford, Conn., Clark said.
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