Environmental Engineering Reference
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Chapter 25
Steven B. Smiley and Susan J. Kopka
P. O. Box 155, Omena, Michigan 49674, USA
25.1
Introduction
The decade of the 1970s transformed the environmental and
energy landscape of America, building the foundation for the modern
emergence of wind power in the United States. As college graduate
students in environmental/natural resources and economic
studies Susan Kopka and Steve Smiley were transformed by the
events of these times—particularly the environmental and energy
crises. We experienced the immediate doubling of gasoline petrol
prices, high inflation and interest rates, and long lines at fuel
stations—with projections of worse to come. The popular topics
of the time were
The Limits to Growth
1
and
The Population Bomb
.
1
Meadows, D. H., Meadows, D. L., Randers, J., Behrens III, W. W., (197)
The Limits
to Growth
, Universe Books.
Ehrlich, P. R., (1968)
The Population Bomb
, Sierra Club/Ballantine Books.
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