Ward Moore, Greener Than You Think
“ I walked with the chief dispatcher into the airport waitingroom, dull with the listless air, not of unoccupancy, but disuse."Not much air travel," I remarked idly."Yours is the first plane in a month.""I wonder you bother to keep the airport open at all.""We do what we can to preserve the forms of civilization. The substance, unfortunately, cannot be affected by transportation, production, distribution, education or any other such niceties." ”
