Energy and Equity - Softcover

Illich, Ivan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714510580 ISBN 13: 9780714510583

Publisher: Marion Boyars, 1974

Synopsis

A junkie without access to his stash is in a state of crisis. The 'energy crisis' that exists intermittently when the flow of fuel from unstable countries is cut off or threatened, is a crisis in the same sense. In this essay, Illich examines the question of whether or not humans need any more energy than is their natural birthright. Along the way he gives a startling analysis of the marginal disutility of tools. After a certain point, that is, more energy gives negative returns. For example, moving around causes loss of time proportional to the amount of energy which is poured into the transport system, so that the speed of the fastest traveller correlates inversely to the equality as well as freedom of the median traveller.

About this title

About the Author:

Ivan Illich is the author of Celebration of Awareness, Tools for Conviviality, The Right to Useful Unemployment, Energy and Equity, Limits to Medicine, Shadow Work, Gender, H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness, ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind, Disabling Professions, Deschooling Society and In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses 1978-1990.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marion Boyars
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0714510580
• ISBN 13: 9780714510583
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96