Our environment?options on the way into the future

The electric power industry faces a dilemma?the need to supply ever-increasing quantities of electric energy and power vital to mankind and, at the same time, to control pollution of the environment to viable limits. This subject?the great environmental debate and the power industry?was discussed at a special session during the 1970 IEEE Summer Power Meeting and EHV Conference by a panel of experts from the electric power industry, state and federal regulatory bodies, and the nuclear community. The program centered around the following lecture by Philip Sporn, reprinted here in full, in which he takes as his theme sentence Loren Eiseley's statement, ``Increasingly there is but one way into the future: the technological way.'