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.
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
No action is without its side effects.
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.