environmental impact

[Jon Louis Mann]

hkhenson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:
  
> Energy is everything --without it, we can't
> >produce food (on anything like the scale it's being
> produced now,
> >we can't get to and from work or do most
> of the kinds of
> >work we do, we can't transport goods from where
> they're made to where
> >they're needed, etc.  With more of it, with lower
> cost and less to
> >zero environmental impact, yes, we could make Earth
> look like
> >Coruscant and sustain it indefinitely.

> >But the "if that energy source exists" is a
> BIG if.  I'm hoping it's
> >found very soon. 
> snip
> Keith

one could say that the measure of a civilization could be determined by how much energy it consumes, but whether a civilization susvives could be determined by its "environmental impact"...
jon