Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every once in a while our existential dependency on the environment asserts itself. Even Harvard had to cancel its classes in the wake of the most massive snowstorm in Massachusetts' recorded history last winter. And more tragically, families living in New York's Love Canal have had to abandon their...
Since the onset of the Industrial Age and mass production, technology has been used to create an independent man-made community which exploits the environment for its own material profit. These tools--railroads to transport us, toilets to dispose of our waste, electrical power plants to provide fuel--are totally...
This use of technology has led to a society which thinks its heat comes from the furnace, or that its food comes from the grocery store. It is a society out of touch with the real forces beyond its control. "Constructive use of technology" has been misinterpreted in away that...
...would be quite another issue if our technology as it is interpreted today made use of natural resources, restoring them to the environment in a way which would not disturb existing ecocycles, food chains, and land. But it does not. The only environmental compromise made by nuclear power advocates (as well as industrialists in general) is that they will do their job with "minimal damage to the environment", as Gov. William Milliken of Michigan recently put it. This half-hearted promise is simply not enough of a commitment, for two reasons...
...time to argue about politics. New values, rather than political argument, will avert environmental disaster. In order to assure our survival, we need first to re-establish our proper place in the cycles of the environment. We must restore and replenish the environment which restores and replenishes...