Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy.
We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.
I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.