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page 6 frlday, September 22, 1978 daily nebraskan Professor predicts impending disaster, spoils appetites Richard Boohar, associate professor of life sciences, gives a lecture on the last day of his Life Sciences 103 class that many students may not want to hear. According to Boohar, "there's going to be some radical changes in the American dream." He believes that supplies of fossil fuel resources will soon run out. "The crunch is going to become visible within the next decade," he said. "People will look back at the time now, and say 4those were the good old days.' " While Boohar believes that the impend ing disaster can be avoided," the possi bility of people acting (to prevent it) in time is remote." The energy shortage must be viewed by taking into account the rising popula tion and rising aspirations of poor people, Boohar said. Loss of luxuries While the American middle class is "going to lose a few luxuries," the minori ties and poor people will be angry because they never had any luxuries, and will not be able to afford even the basic necessities, he said. New oil discoveries in the North Sea do not encourage Boohar. He said those ex perts who have made projections for the time when energy resources will run out have already taken those discoverings into account, and have also included discoveries not yet made. Boohar, who said he gets his informa tion from newspapers, magazines, govern ment publications and other sources, be lieves "we're at a stage where we can either start saving now, stand by and ignore it," or do nothing and then get upset when a disaster happens. Carter's energy program will not have much effect, Boohar said, because people with special interests in Congress want to make sure they will not be affected. Boohar said that Congress' feeling is that "Carter can have any energy program he wants as long as nothing is slowed down." Dreams, shattered When the energy crunch comes, Boohar said, the ordinary person will not be able to dream of owning a motorcycle, one or two boats and two cars. Most families will have one small car and will rely heavily on public transportation, he said. "Travel, for the sheer pleasure of it, will get so expensive, most people won't be able to afford it," he said. Boohar said electricity will be very expensive and people "will be very care ful about the electricity they use." A "multiplicity of resources" should be developed, Boohar said, "but we can't depend on one thing as the only source of power." "We will never have as much energy as we seem to be wanting," he said, although if alternative sources of energy are developed and less is used, " we can come to a balance." Students react with "sort of a stunned expression" when they hear Boohar's views, he said. 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