The Modern Technologist Is Less

The Environmental Crisis Is A Signal Of This Approaching Catastrophe.

We Are In An Environmental Crisis Which Threatens The Survival Of This Nation, And Of The World As A Suitable Place Of Human Habitation.

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.

The Environmental Crisis Is Somber Evidence Of An Insidious Fraud Hidden In The Vaunted Productivity And Wealth Of Modern, Technology-based Society. This Wealth Has Been Gained By Rapid Short-term Exploitation Of The Environmental System, But It Has Blindly Accumulated A Debt To Nature-a Debt So Large And So Pervasive That In The Next Generation It May, If Unpaid, Wipe Out Most Of The Wealth It Has Gained Us.

The Aec Had At Its Command An Army Of Highly Skilled Scientists.