MORE PERSPECTIVE ON WORLD ENERGY RELATIONSHIPS

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D. Eutrophication problems will decline as farmers bid for sewage use; ecological engineering will replace some other kinds of environmental engineering. Lowered energies will take the pressure off the environment in many situations.

E. Universities will be less occupied and will need to organize among themselves to keep society from losing valuable information accumulated during our recent energy-rich periods. Creative activity will be less and knowledge custodial service may be more. Computer use will be less.

F. Farms may use more land but their functions and cycles will be more intact and their external environmental action less.

G. Tourism will be less and will operate with energy attractions, using less artificial lures and a higher percentage of selfmaintaining natural ones.

H. The scale of activities may be reduced and decentralized with more small units replacing large unified ones. This may apply to cities' sewage handling, cars, and even utilities. Agriculture will develop more local use and variety.

I. Religions concerned with adaptation and satisfaction with an uneven continued pattern will increase and religious unrest will decrease. Mental health should improve once the shock of change from growth to more level economy is passed.

J. Advertising and communications will be reduced.

K. Properties of high energy concentration will decrease: crime, wrecks, police, noise, central services and their tax costs.

L. Pine plantations for paper may decrease in favor of food production and forest management for lumber for buildings.

M. Exotic medical services will decline.

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