STELZER'S TRAVELS: A VOYAGE TO A
SENSIBLE PLANET
is essentially two books in one:
a narrative and
a discourse.
Stelzer’s Travels provides an imaginative,
sometimes
humorous
yarn that serves as
a vehicle for expounding
the author’s
science-based CURES FOR EARTH'S ILLS.
It would seem that an intelligent species like ourselves,
equipped with the enormous amount of accumulated knowledge and technical
skills we have at our disposal, should be capable of solving all
of mankind's problems. Obviously, this has not been the case. For
the most part, our major problems overpopulation, pollution, dwindling
water supplies, etc.—are instead worsening. We've invented
a thousand kinds of breakfast cereal, but we can't eliminate periodic
famine. We can put a zillion features on a silicon computer chip
the size of a fingernail, but we can't seem to prevent a never-ending
series of armed conflicts. We can readily jet to all corners of
the world, but everywhere we land we end up wrecking the place.
And on and on it goes. read
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