In Certain Ways, I'm Not Very Different

Technologists Practice Faith Too; 'faith That Problems Have Solutions Before Having The Knowledge To Solve Them.'

What Is Needed Now Is A Transformation Of The Major Systems Of Production More Profound Than Even The Sweeping Post-world War Ii Changes In Production Technology.

Science Is Triumphant With Far-ranging Success, But Its Triumph Is Somehow Clouded By Growing Difficulties In Providing For The Simple Necessities Of Human Life On Earth.

What The New Fertilizer Technology Has Accomplished For The Farmer Is Clear: More Crop Can Be Produced On Less Acreage Than Before. Since The Cost Of Fertilizer, Relative To The Resultant Gain In Crop Sales, Is Lower Than That Of Any Other Economic Input, And Since The Land Bank Pays The Farmer For Acreage Not In Crops, The New Technology Pays Him Well. The Cost-in Environmental Degradation-is Borne By His Neighbors In Town Who Find Their Water Polluted. The New Technology Is An Economic Success-but Only Because It Is An Ecological Failure.

If You Ask What You Are Going To Do About Global Warming, The Only Rational Answer Is To Change The Way In Which We Do Transportation, Energy Production, Agriculture And A Good Deal Of Manufacturing. The Problem Originates In Human Activity In The Form Of The Production Of Goods.