Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Owen J. Gingerich, professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science, disagreed with the statement, arguing that it was imprudent to expect the Resolution to apply equally in the University. He said that the Resolution had created a framework for acceptable methods of political pressure, which, he added, "is...
Government and business will be forced to spend ever increasing sums-possibly $10 billion to $20 billion a year, in Herman Kahn's estimate-to control pollution of air and water and to prevent the destruction of natural beauty. Already, the young seem to be turning their protest to...
Much more is involved than putting filters on chimneys and car exhausts and building new sewage plants. As the decade advances, it will become clear that if the ecological effort is to succeed, much of today's existing technology will have to be scrapped and something new developed in...
Popular though the cause is, it is by no means clear that the struggle to save the environment will be won. The attitude, central to the modern mind, that all technology is good technology will have to be changed radically. "Our society is trained to accept all new technology as...
(11 of 13) "Western man has not lived with his natural environment. He has merely conquered it." Others suggest that the struggle will be won once the public realizes the danger inherent in man's Faustian lust to overwhelm and use the world.