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discussed, he said, partly because of that very power. The corporations don’t like to talk about it, and their influence stays in the background— seldom seen by the populace.
“Then there’s the whole question of the environment, of waste, of overconsumption and all its implications. We are an overconsumlng society—yet all we talk about is producing more. ”
What we ought to be talking about, he said, is why we waste so much, use so much that we don’t need, and how to change those habits to conserve the finite resources which remain.
Concerning defense, Mr. McCarthy said, “I don’t really think we’re talking any sense with the so-called strategy of nuclear war or non-war.”
The people who criticize President Reagan’s Strategic Defense
Initiative, the “Star Wars” concept of space-based defensive weapons, are using the wrong arguments, Sen. McCarthy maintained. “They are arguing that it is technologically not possible; but they ought to be arguing that it is not desirable even if it is possible.” If the proponents can prove that the technology will work.
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