In the foreword R. Buckminster Fuller writes, "This book makes it incontestably clear that it is feasible to harvest enough of our daily income of extraterrestrial energy as well as of the surface eruptive streams of internal Earthian infernos all generated at an inexorable, nature-sustained rate to provide all humanity and all their generations to come with a higher standard of living and greater freedoms than ever have been experienced by any humans and to do so by 1985, while completely phasing out all further use or development of fossil fuels, atomic and fusion energies."
This is a dangerous book. It's revolutionary theme, to phase out "all further use or development of fossil fuels, atomic and fusion energies," and replace them with eternally sustainable energy sources, pits Fuller's comprehensive anticipatory design science against some of the most powerfully self-interested forces on the planet. Higher standards of living? Greater freedoms than ever have been experienced by any humans? That's heady stuff. Classical Fuller, eminently doable, needed.
Energy, Earth and Everyone was the result of a World Game Workshop held during June and July, 1974. Its stated aim was "to find out, and to document, whether humanity on Earth - in 1974 - has the wealth (the resources and the know-how to organize those resources) to reach a preferred state of functioning in which 100 percent of humanity has access to all the energy it needs for its regenerative life-support, and how quickly this could be done." The book's three units, 44 chapters and 68 charts, maps and graphs convincingly achieve this goal.
Gabel, Medard (1975). Energy, Earth, and Everyone, Straight Arrow Books, San Francisco, CA. Distributed by Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-87932-095-8.
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