ABSTRACT
“…another enormously powerful threat to the flattening of the world is on the horizon. It is not a human resources constraint or a disease, but a natural resources constraint. If millions of people from India, China, Latin America, and the former Soviet Empire, who for years have been living largely outside the flat world, all start to walk onto the new flat world platform—with his or her own version of the American dream of owning a car, a house, a refrigerator, a microwave, and a toaster—we are, at best, going to experience a serious energy shortage. At worst, we are going to set off a global struggle for natural resources and junk up, heat up, garbage up, smoke up, and devour up our little planet faster than at any time in the history of the world. Be afraid. I certainly am.”
