Hollie, thanks for bringing up in today's seminar Jimmy Carter's speech about over-consumption. I looked it up just now and am including the link to a recent-ish NPR article about the speech, and the link (PBS) to the speech itself. Interesting stuff, particularly given our conversation today.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106508243

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/carter-crisis/

-- Suzie