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More Footnotes:

Floyd Dominy's declaration, "I think it's a shame that we haven't developed every single possible kilowatt from this renewable, non-polluting source of energy," has a kernel of thermodynamic truth.  But it has a whole cart load of common misconceptions.  He, like most everyone else, doesn't see how the "energy" of Aristotle and that of common use today, is something very different from the "energy" of physics.  His thinking is a mishmash of good idea and pure nonsense.  Entropy, not energy, is the abstract physics entity we dimly "see" when we use the word "energy," the essence of food and fuel.  Some deep understanding of entropy will take us a lot further in effectively interacting with our environment than will a little shallow understanding of energy.  Silt behind a dam is one overlooked complication of man's tampering with something only dimly understood, bringing ultimate disaster somewhere in the future.

And Dominy dropped a precious gem in our lap when he stated, "I had no sympathy for those who felt that nature couldn't be improved upon.  Now I admit that nature can't improve upon man.  We're probably the supreme being.  But in the realm of rivers, I think man can improve upon 'em."  Few people have expressed the "egocentrism" as seen through genetic epistemology more eloquently.  See our "Case Study," the link under "Seek Eurekas" when you enter our Web site via the back door.

Loren Eiseley expresses so much of such human problems so much better than we can.  He has woven many of the threads—about logic-blindness, irrational exuberance for population growth, etc—into a lyrical tapestry in "The Unexpected Universe."  A little of this tapestry can be seen by replacing the letters "gco14" in your browser's "location:" line with the letters "traps" or the letters "wetholes"; then hit enter.  (Scroll down to the spider if you use "wetholes.")