Notes

  1. . LynnWhite, Jr., “Technology Assessment from the Stance of a Medieval Historian,” American Historical Review  (February 1974), p. 1.
  2. . “Report of the Working Committee on Church and Society” (Minutes of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, Canterbury, 1969).
  3. . Mary Hesse, “On the Alleged Incompatibility between Christianity and Science,” in Man and Nature, ed. Hugh Montefiore (London: William Collins & Sons, 1975), p. 121.
  4. . See Wilfred Beckerman, In Defence of Economic Growth (London: Jonathan Cape, 1974), esp. the “Postcript on the Oil Crisis and Economic Growth,” pp. 249–57.
  5. . Alvin M.Weinberg, “Science and Trans‐Science,” Minerva  (April 1972), p. 209.
  6. . Ibid., p. 211.
  7. . WolfHfelel, “Hypotheticality and the New Challenges: The Pathfinder Role of Nuclear Energy,” Minerva  12 (1974): 314–15.
  8. . Ibid., p. 317.
  9. . Ibid., p. 319.
  10. . See the Church of England's Doctrinal Commission's Project, Man and Nature (n. 3 above), as an example of a church taking up the implications of the environment issue for Christian doctrine.
  11. . Jean Ladriére, in a paper presented at a World Council of Churches study conference, Pont‐à‐Mousson, France, May 1973; my translation.
  12. . Langdon Gilkey, in Anticipation, no. 17 (1974).
  13. . Paulos Gregorius, “Mystery and Mastery” (paper presented at the 1974 Bucharest conference of the World Council of Churches).
  14. . Ibid.
  15. . Herbert Marcuse, One‐dimensional Man (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964), p. 158.
  16. . Ibid., p. 166.
  17. . Jürgen Habermas. Toward a Rational Society (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970), pp. 85, 87–88.
  18. . Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971), p. 280: “Both socialist and capitalist economic theory have apparently developed without taking into account the limited capacity of the biological capital represented by the ecosystem. As a result, neither system has as yet developed a means of accommodating its economic operation to environmental crisis; both will be severely tested by the urgent need to solve it.”
  19. . Three Reports from Church and Society (World Council of Churches, September 1971), pp. 18–26.
  20. . Robert L. Heilbroner, An Inquiry into the Human Prospect (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1974).
  21. . As quoted in the Report of the West African Conference on Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana (World Council of Churches, Geneva, March 1972).
  22. . “Report of an Ecumenical Conference on the Scientific, Technological and Social Revolutions in Asian Perspective, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 19–23, 1973,” Anticipation, no. 14, p. 36.
  23. . Ibid.
  24. . See “1974 World Conference on Science and Technology for Human Development [Bucharest, Romania, June 24–July 2, 1974],” Anticipation, no. 19 (1974), p. 12.
  25. . Ibid.
  26. . Heilbroner.
  27. . Alvin M.Weinberg, “Social Institutions and Nuclear Energy,” Science  177 (1972): 33.