1. The Environmental Crisis: Through a Glass Darkly.
- Author
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Rosen, Walter G.
- Subjects
GLOBAL environmental change ,ECOLOGY ,POLLUTION ,ZERO population growth ,ECONOMIC development ,ENVIRONMENTAL policy ,ENVIRONMENTAL protection ,SCIENCE education ,TECHNOLOGY - Abstract
The article presents the author's view on issues concerning the environmental crisis. He cites that pollution abatement is the biggest growth industry in the 1970s and polluters are into abatement business in a big way. According to the author, there is an urgent need of worldwide zero population growth or in some places of a negative population growth, of zero economic growth, and of a negative system of technological development. The author contends that the teaching of science plays an important role to orient people on the impact of environmental crisis.
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- 1970
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