Energy and Equity

Anyone read Energy and Equity?:
In Energy and Equity, Ivan Illich argues that "civilization has a speed 
limit" (55)-"that beyond a certain median per capita energy level, the 
political system and cultural context of any society must 
decay..[T]echnocracy must prevail as soon as the ratio of mechanical power 
and metabolic energy oversteps a definite, identifiable threshold." To the 
extent that we have all been interpellated in the stream of traffic of 
modern industry, the "very existence [of this limit and alternative] has 
slipped into the blindspot of social imagination in both rich medium rich 
countries" (18-19). "A true choice among political systems and of desirable 
social relations is possible only where speed is restrained. Participatory 
democracy demands low energy technology, and free people must travel the 
road to productive social relations at the speed of a bicycle" (24).