In "The Year 2000," Herman Kahn pleads for the re-establishment of "an ideology of progress":
"Two out of three Americans polled in recent years believe that their grandchildren will not live as well as they do, i.e., they tend to believe the vision of the future that is taught in our school system. Almost every child is told that we are running out of resouces; that wer are robbing future generations when we use these scarce, irrepaceable, or nonrenewable resouces in silly, frivolous and wasteeful ways; that we are callously pollutin gthe environment beyond control; that we are recklessly destroying the ecology beyond repair; that were are knowingly distributing foods with give people cancer and other ailments but continue to do so in order to make a profit.
"It would be hard to describe a more unhealthy, immoral, and disastrous educational context, every element of which is either largely incorrect, misleading, overstated, or just plain wrong. Whatthe school system describes, and what so many Americans believe, is a prescription for low morale, highher prices and greater (and unnecessary) regulations."
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