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We mention this to give you another version of the rosy picture still being painted by many proponents of nuclear energy. The fact is that atomic power's contribution—to our energy needs slipped last year (from about 12% to 10%) and would have come in last if oil hadn't slipped even further.

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However, figures like these fail to consider conservation, which—in its own way—has contributed at least as much to solving our energy problems as has nuclear power or oil. In fact, despite the pronouncements of the supply-side energy types, conservation is today's most economical way of augmenting future supplies of energy.

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We're exceedingly pleased to be offering this column to readers of THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS ® . In forthcoming issues we'll be discussing other topics that we think will be vitally important to everyone who's concerned with our environment. If you'd like to challenge (or elaborate on) any of the items reported in the column—or to ask any questions that we might be able to answer—write to us: Friends of the Earth. Dept. TMEN. 124 Spear Street, San Francisco, California 94105

EDITOR'S NOTE: To become a member of Friends of the Earth—and receive. the excellent monthly publication Not Man Apart—remit $25 ($12 for students and re tired people), or $15 for a subscription only, to FOE at the address above.

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