It suggests the ease with which environmentalists could be identified as puritanical moralists, dour pessimists, enemies of fun and the future. The story of Carter’s speech is a cautionary tale for environmentalists. He lost no time in removing the solar panels from the White House roof. "America is back," he announced after his election. This was the country where the sky was the limit. Reagan, meanwhile, was prepared to argue that any talk about limits was un-American. Pundit after pundit took Carter to task for having the temerity to blame the American people for their wasteful ways. Polls indicated that popular reaction to the speech was generally favorable, but then the chattering classes weighed in.īy 1979 Carter’s media stock had bottomed out. It was an extraordinarily prescient speech, one that acknowledged the limits to economic growth and anticipated nearly all the environmental themes that have only recently returned to fashion.īut it was a political disaster for Carter. Carter never used the offending word, though he did refer to an American "crisis of confidence," arising from the discovery that "owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning." Carter’s big mistake was to question this accumulationist ethos in arguing for conservation as a "moral equivalent of war" and committing the government to long-term research into alternative energy sources. During the campaign, he and his handlers shrewdly exploited Jimmy Carter’s "malaise" speech of July 1979. Environmentalism was one of Reagan’s targets from the beginning. But the disappearance of ecological issues from the national agenda was an essential part of the devastation. It will take historians many years to sort through the political, economic, and cultural wreckage left by Ronald Reagan and his ideological heirs. Who could be bothered with worry about waste amid acres of wired McMansions and herds of lumbering SUVs? Quite the contrary: for most Americans it was as if the 1970s-the decade of the "energy crisis," Small Is Beautiful, and presidential commitments to solar energy-never happened.
Noble green intentions left little impact on everyday life. For the last thirty years-despite the absorption of environmentalist slogans and sentiments into our popular culture, the frequent legal skirmishes on behalf of endangered species, and the spread of serious ecological thought into many academic disciplines-broad environmental concerns all but disappeared from mainstream political debate. Their amnesia is an understandable response to recent history. Yet contemporary politicians and pundits treat green concerns as if they were fresh discoveries. The pragmatic, ethical, and aesthetic arguments for conservation are roughly the same as they were in the 1970s-the only difference being that they have acquired even more urgency in the face of depleted oil reserves, fished-out oceans, and "climate change," the current euphemism for global warming.
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We currently have an opening with a full PhD scholarship in Nanoscale Wireless Communications.Ĭlick here to find out about the details.After all, we have been here before. For this, the WiPLASH consortium will provide solid experimental foundations of the key enablers of on-chip wireless communication at the functional unit level as well as their technological and architectural integration. In order to achieve this, the WiPLASH project aims to pioneer an on-chip wireless communication plane able to provide architectural plasticity, reconfigurability and adaptation to the application requirements with near-ASIC efficiency but without loss of generality. The main challenge is to introduce diversification and specialization in heterogeneous processor architectures while ensuring their generality and scalability. However, such interconnects are fundamentally monolithic and rigid, and are unable to provide the efficiency and architectural flexibility required by current and future key ICT applications. State-of-the-art approaches are 3D stacking and 2D architectures complemented with a Network-on-Chip (NoC) to interconnect the components.
Heterogeneous hardware specialization requires interconnection mechanisms that integrate the architecture. This is motivated by the urgent need of very high parallelism and by energy constraints. The main design principles in computer architecture have shifted from a monolithic scaling-driven approach towards an emergence of heterogeneous architectures that tightly co-integrate multiple specialized computing and memory units.
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