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= Environmentalism =

= Environmentalism =

''Star Trek'' assumes the truth of every canard liberals make about the effect of heavy industry on the [[environment]]. A time-traveling character asks explicitly, “Do these people know their [[fossil fuels]] are nearing depletion?”<ref name="ftn19">“Carpenter Street” in ''Enterprise''</ref> [[Global warming]]? Check. Internal combustion? The Academicians, whoever they are, forbid this.<ref name="ftn20">See, for instance, “The Thirty-sevens” in ''Voyager''. The namesake ship brings aboard a 1936 Ford truck. The ship’s helmsman, an aficionado of United Nations prehistory, starts this truck. His fellow officers express amazement at the profligacy of the “propulsion system.” Indeed the master-at-arms threatens to clap him in the brig for stinking up the hangar deck.</ref>

''Star Trek'' assumes the truth of every canard liberals make about the effect of heavy [[industry]] on the [[environment]]. A time-traveling character asks explicitly, “Do these people know their [[fossil fuels]] are nearing depletion?”<ref name="ftn19">“Carpenter Street” in ''Enterprise''</ref> [[Global warming]]? Check. Internal combustion? The Academicians, whoever they are, forbid this.<ref name="ftn20">See, for instance, “The Thirty-sevens” in ''Voyager''. The namesake ship brings aboard a 1936 Ford truck. The ship’s helmsman, an aficionado of United Nations prehistory, starts this truck. His fellow officers express amazement at the profligacy of the “propulsion system.” Indeed the master-at-arms threatens to clap him in the brig for stinking up the hangar deck.</ref>

The canon says little about how people get around on a [[planet]] in that future era. (Getting around in [[space]] presents only one possible environmental problem. The chief problems of space travel have to do with trespass or passing through someone else’s [[war]] zone.) And it says nothing whatever about how human beings moved away from the fossil fuel economy the producers obviously hate.

The canon says little about how people get around on a [[planet]] in that future era. (Getting around in [[space]] presents only one possible environmental problem. The chief problems of space travel have to do with trespass or passing through someone else’s [[war]] zone.) And it says nothing whatever about how human beings moved away from the fossil fuel economy the producers obviously hate.