Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

No action is without its side effects.

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.

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

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.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

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