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... technological : to discover a method of reducing its incidence . That involves deciding , in the first place , which of the causative factors it will be easiest to control . Knowing , for example , that the Los Angeles smog is a joint ...
... technological : to discover a method of reducing its incidence . That involves deciding , in the first place , which of the causative factors it will be easiest to control . Knowing , for example , that the Los Angeles smog is a joint ...
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... technological invention , they can be solved only within the Western rational tradition . That much is obvious . Mystical contemplation will not reveal to the chemist the origins of the Los Angeles smog nor enable the engineer to design ...
... technological invention , they can be solved only within the Western rational tradition . That much is obvious . Mystical contemplation will not reveal to the chemist the origins of the Los Angeles smog nor enable the engineer to design ...
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... technological know - how . Nowhere , as we have said , is ecological destruction more apparent than in today's Japan , for all its tradition of nature - worship . Indeed , to carry this argument further , the belief that nature is ...
... technological know - how . Nowhere , as we have said , is ecological destruction more apparent than in today's Japan , for all its tradition of nature - worship . Indeed , to carry this argument further , the belief that nature is ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Man as Despot | 11 |
Stewardship and Cooperation with | 28 |
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