1. Henry Adams, A Letter to American Teachers of History (privately published by the author, 1910) pp. 131, 155.
2. For a discussion of the multiple environmental consequences that may result from the building of very large dams, see C. Sterling ‘The Aswan Disaster’, Environmental Journal, National Parks and Conservation Magazine, 45 (1971) pp. 10–13.
3. numerous articles in M.T. Farvar and J. Milton (eds), The Careless Technology (Garden City, NY: Natural History Press, 1972).
4. and D. Deudney, ‘Hydropower: An Old Technology for a New Era’, Environment (September 1981) pp. 17–20, 37–45.
5. R. Stobaugh and D. Yergin (eds), Energy Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School (New York: Random House, 1979) p. 232.