Robert W. Bruère

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Robert W. Bruère (1876-1964) was a political adviser and investigative journalist specialising in Union and labour federation competition in the United States. At one time, he had flirted with Marxism but his maturer thinking was focused on liberating society from the maleficent effects of monopolies, cartels, special interest groups and government cronyism. This led disaffected Republican Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt to hire Bruère as an adviser to his short-lived ‘Progressive Party’ (nicknamed the Bull Moose party) in the US election of 1912, which came closer to winning power than any other third party in US political history. Robert’s brother Henry was an adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt; his sister Mina was a feminist and a banking executive.

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Not Ready for Power by Robert W. Bruère

Man had proved spiritually unprepared for the discovery of coal, said Robert Bruère, and was poised to squander the next energy revolution too.

In 1922, Robert W. Bruère gave thanks for the enormous social and economic benefits brought by the Coal Age. Yet the benefits could have been far greater. Despite so much plenty, mankind went on living as if life were still a desperate scramble for survival in which might is right and the weakest go to the wall. When we finally realise our dream of solar energy, will we be any better prepared?

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