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Peer reviewedHesburgh, Theodore M.; Henriot, Peter J. – Social Education, 1979
Examines the role of science and technology in relation to socioeconomic goals by reviewing historical innovations in the United States and global environmental, employment, and social challenges. Recommends that the United States reorder technological priorities to meet human needs. (CK)
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Employment Problems, Environment, Global Approach
Peer reviewedNigh, Ronald B.; Nations, James D. – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1980
Presented is a summary of scientific knowledge about the rainforest environment, a tropical ecosystem in danger of extermination. Topics include the current state of tropical rainforests, the causes of rainforest destruction, and alternatives of rainforest destruction. (BT)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Botany, Ecological Factors, Ecology
Download full textMeine, Curt, Ed.; And Others – 1988
The argument over economic development and environmental sustainability took center stage in the late 1960s and early 1970s as many believed the capacity of the earth to support the population was being reached. In the early 1980s the arguments receded but have reemerged as atmospheric problems and petroleum supplies are again hot topics. The…
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Conservation (Environment), Crowding, Energy Conservation
