A Step Farther Out (45 page)

There is an alternative to Zero-Growth. People could learn to expect
more,
not less; know that if they work harder they can have it, for themselves and their children.

It's a possible future. Isn't it? If it's not, don't tell me; because I want to believe that there is a chance; that I may live to see that world I describe in my lectures; that before I die I can say "My generation gave mankind the planets and the stars; and I was a part of it."