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Nothing Ever Dies, Nothing Ever Goes Away.

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.

What The New Fertilizer Technology Has Accomplished For The Farmer Is Clear: More Crop Can Be Produced On Less Acreage Than Before. Since The Cost Of Fertilizer, Relative To The Resultant Gain In Crop Sales, Is Lower Than That Of Any Other Economic Input, And Since The Land Bank Pays The Farmer For Acreage Not In Crops, The New Technology Pays Him Well. The Cost-in Environmental Degradation-is Borne By His Neighbors In Town Who Find Their Water Polluted. The New Technology Is An Economic Success-but Only Because It Is An Ecological Failure.

Sooner Or Later, Wittingly Or Unwittingly, We Must Pay For Every Intrusion On The Natural Environment.

The Environmental Crisis Is A Sign That The Ecosphere Is Now So Heavily Strained That Its Continued Stability Is Threatened. It Is A Warning That We Must Discover The Source Of This Suicidal Drive And Master It Before It Destroys The Environment-and Ourselves.