Managing to Utility
manage, v.
- To direct or control the use of; handle: manage a complex machine tool.
- To exert control over.
- To make submissive to one's authority, discipline, or persuasion.
- To direct the affairs or interests of: manage a company; an agency that manages performers.
- To succeed in accomplishing or achieving, especially with difficulty; contrive or arrange: managed to get a promotion.
Does society have the ability to manage the coming net reduction in total available energy without persuasion?
Can society successfully control its use of fossil fuels in light of global warming?
Will society represent and fight for the good of the greatest number?
Is negative utilitarianism possible given the operating framework of capitalism?
