Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

Despite the dazzling successes of modern technology and the unprecedented power of modern military systems, they suffer from a common and catastrophic fault. While providing us with a bountiful supply of food, with great industrial plants, with high-speed transportation, and with military weapons of unprecedented power, they threaten our very survival.

It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.