Buckminster Fuller
Anchor Books, 1973.
This collection of essays and other writings includes Telegram to Senator Edmund Muskie, a long poem wherein Fuller argues for a tidal generating project and against petroleum pipelines intruding into the Alaskan wilds.
We also find bold claims for our new century:
"The great aesthetic which will inaugurate the twenty-first century will be the utterly invisible quality of intellectual integrity; the integrity of the individual in dealing with his scientific discoveries; the integrity of the individual in dealing with conceptual realization of the comprehensive interrelatedness of all events..." (p.63)
The book ends with Ten Proposals for Improving the World:
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