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.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

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

In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.

For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.