Overcoming the Crisis du Jour: There's a middle ground between complacency and panic. Those who find it will survive

摘要

The first U.S. Secretary of Energy, James R. Schlesinger, once said Americans have only two modes - complacency and panic. At the time, he was talking about the way we conserve when prices soar but consume without a care when prices go down. More than 30 years later, it seems we've made little progress.