The New Republic, March 24, 1973
UNDER the rolling plains of eastern Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas is one of the world’s last great energy reserves — nearly a trillion tons of lignite and sub-bituminous coal, about 35 billion of which are readily strippable. A good many ranchers, young people and others, however, don’t want to mine it.
The New Republic, December 1, 1972
THE FIRST thing that strikes a shopper entering a Co‑op supermarket is a feeling that the store is on his side. But cooperatives, like small farms and many other forms of independent business, have fallen victim to the mid-century dictum of expand or die.
The New Republic, October 21, 1972
WHILE a small minority of Americans siphons off more money than it knows what to do with, a fifth of our population remains perennially poor, and millions more teeter on the edge of poverty. Ever-increasing production won’t, by itself, correct this. We also need to share better.
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