Answer to Question 1
Morality is a human concept. As human beings, we certainly want to assure that
everyone alive have a life as meaningful and rewarding as ours. Wishing it so does not
necessarily make it so.
Easterbrook's idealism is clearly tempered with realism. He cites the need for preserving the
environment. He does not say how the drastic increase in consumption will coexist with the
environment.
Technology is clearly a way to do more with less or the same, so there is some reason for
his optimism. Easterbrook seems less dogmatic than Simon in his prognosis.
Let us hope with him that we do not need to do great damage to Earth to sustain its present
and expected population.
Answer to Question 2
The water surrounding the reactor was less than what was needed to carry away
the thermal energy safely in liquid form; therefore, the water boiled to steam, and the steam
was not able to carry thermal energy away as efficiently as the water it replaced. In the
presence of so much thermal energy, steam could dissociate into hydrogen and oxygen, ripe
for exploding were a spark to ignite the hydrogen.
teach their children to care for the earth in hopes of passing on a better world to future generatio
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