Jag har ett vagt barndomsminne om att läsa en science fiction roman där huvudpersonen hade någon form av psionisk koppling med en främling som varnade för farorna med stigande havsnivåer.
Ljud känner till någon?
Det här är verkligen Danes svar, och jag tar bort om Daniel vill posta. Under tiden jag har boken Chocky trodde jag att jag skulle lägga upp några detaljer.
Chocky beskriver sig själv som:
I am an explorer, I mean scout, I mean missionary -- no, I mean teacher. I am here to teach things.
och det gör en telepatisk kontakt med en pojke som heter Matthew. Boken leder till uppenbarelsen att Chocky kan hjälpa människor att utnyttja en makt i universet som beskrivs som xxxxx . Chocky ger lite preken:
'Yes. You have not done badly with electricity in a hundred years. And you did well with steam in quite a short time. But all that is so inefficient. And your oil engines are dirty, noisy, poisonous, and the cars you drive with them are barbarous, dangerous ...'
'Yes,' I interrupted. 'You mentioned that before, to Matthew. But we do have atomic power now.'
'Very crudely, yes. You are learning, slowly. But you still live in a finite, sun-based economy.'
'Sun-based?'
'Yes. Everything you are, and have, you owe to the radiations from your sun. Direct radiations you must have to keep your bodies alive, and to grow your food, and provide fresh-water; and they could continue to support you for millions of years. But to grow and expand intelligence needs power. It is true you have an elementary form of atomic power which you will no doubt improve. But that is almost your only investment for your future. Most of your power is being used to build machines to consume power faster and faster, while your sources of power remain finite. There can be only one end to that.'
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