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By FRANCIS UPDIKE
(Contributing Writer
I read with great interest your editorial, Pandora’s Box, in the paper April 5.
The “Utopian” situation to which you allude would be a nice dream for everyone, but that's what it is—just a dream.
Oldfashioned conservation, to which you refer in your comments, has been practiced steadily by most electric consumers over the past three years.
Still, that has not offset the increasing demand for electricity, nor its costs.
Everyone in our society must live with some level of risk. Every new technology usually carries with it some degree of risk. Medical diagnostic x-rays, for example, are conservatively estimated to cause 2,700 cancer deaths each year.
We can expect that automobiles are going to kill approximately 50,000 persons in 1979. Many people will not ride in an airplane, but there are only a few people who will not ride in a car.
Yet any time you are riding in a car, the odds are one in 4,000 that you will be killed, but when riding in an airplane, the odds are only one in 100,000 that you will be killed.
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