"These self-serving arguments from the world’s petroleum brokers are based on a singular falsehood: that more energy translates into better living. Decades of human slavery peddled the same lies...
"...Every dominant energy system, from human slavery to nuclear power, has regarded itself as the master resource and has defended its reign with combustible rhetoric and the call for more.
"Yet none of these arguments are rational, moral, or equitable."
Full article: Andrew Nikiforuk denounces the Energy of Slaves.
Incredible that at one time people actually made such claims to support slavery. Nikiforuk demolishes the claim that increased energy use brings more happiness.
