THE METAINDUSTRIAL VILLAGE

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March/April 1978
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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And yet risk-taking is what evolution is all about. Some people prefer to take risks with the survival of the human species by gambling on nuclear power . . . others prefer to take risks with their own way of life. By 1984 we should be at the fork in the road. Then everyone should be able to see clearly the choice we need to make.

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One road will lead toward nuclear power, strip mining, and authoritarian governments which can underwrite the contracts for the corporations and the pension funds of the labor unions, as well as protect industrial society from revolution and terrorism. The other road will lead toward a spiritual awakening on the level of the great universal religions that have guided the cultural evolution of humanity. This path will be expressed by a change of heart and mind, a new wedding of nature and culture, and a new kind of human community which can express the resacralization of earth.

With solar collectors contrasted with smog, smokestacks with windmills, meditators with teenagers who have radios blasting in their ears as they walk the crowded streets ... I hope that Americans will look at the two roads and choose the wisdom of the poet Gary Snyder, "to live lightly on the earth".

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