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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 052 058 SE 012 062 AUTHOR Kohn, Raymond F. Environmental Education, the Last Measure of Man. an Anthology Of DOCUMENT RESUME ED 052 058 SE 012 062 AUTHOR Kohn, Raymond F. TITLE Environmental Education, The Last Measure of Man. An Anthology of Papers for the Consideration of the 14th and 15th Conference of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. INSTITUTION National Commission for UNESCO (Dept. of State), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 71 NOTE 199p. EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-$0.65 HC-$6.58 DESCRIPTORS Anthologies, *Ecology, *Environment, EnVironmental Education, Environmental Influences, *Essays, *Human Engineering, Interaction, Pollution IDENTIFIERS Unesco ABSTRACT An anthology of papers for consideration by delegates to the 14th and 15th conferences of the United States National Commission for UNESCO are presented in this book. As a wide-ranging collection of ideas, it is intended to serve as background materials for the conference theme - our responsibility for preserving and defending a human environment that permits the full growth of man, physical, cultural, and social. Thirty-four essays are contributed by prominent authors, educators, historians, ecologists, biologists, anthropologists, architects, editors, and others. Subjects deal with the many facets of ecology and the environment; causes, effects, and interactions with man which have led to the crises of today. They look at what is happening to man's "inside environment" in contrast to the physical or outside environment as it pertains to pollution of the air, water, and land. For the common good of preserving the only means for man's survival, the need for world cooperation and understanding is emphatically expressed. (BL) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO- DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIG- INATING IT. POINTS OF VIEW OR OPIN- IONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDU- CATION POSITION OR POLICY. ( 4 44 ,r e--,-.1St Y 1 ENVIRONMENTAL "EDUCATION" THE LAST MEASURE OF MAN Contents The Proper Study of Mankind Henry David Thoreau Good Oak and The Land Ethic ("A Sand County Almanac") Aldo Leopold 1 The Ecological Facts of Life (No Deposit No Return) Barry Commoner 14 Epilogue: The Advancement of Life (The Pentagon of Power: Myth of the Machine, Vol. II) Lewis Mumford 26 Are Physicists to Blame? (Editorial) Harold L. Davis 38 The Biologist, the Psychologist, and the Environmental Crisis Robert G. Franke 41 Beyond Civilization (The State of the Species 1971) Paul J. Bohannan 47 Affluence and the World Tomorrow Leroy S. Wehrle 56 Jerome Bruner Maintains Infants are Smarter than Anybody Thinks Maya Pines 62 What Do I Do Monday? (John Holt) Book Review Ronald Gross 71 The Worlds I Live In, Learning as Growth, The World Belongs to Us All (What Do I Do Monday) John Holt 73 `Green Revolution' Most Significant of this Decade Richard Critchfield 81 Health Menace Created by High Dam at Aswan Claire Sterling 85 The Crisis (Population, Resources, Environment: Issues in Human Ecology) Paul and Anne Ehrlich 88 The Lemmings' Periodic Journeys are Not Unique John B. Calhoun 90 The Tyranny of Noise (Robert Alex Baron) Book Review Robert Cassidy 95 The Price of Environmental Quality (The Tyranny of Noise) Robert Alex Baron 98 Beyond Habitat (Moshe Safdie) Book Review Wolf Von Eckardt 107 Introduction (and) Epilogue: A Magic Machine (Beyond Habitat) Moshe Safdie 109 The Future of American Cities: Two Views: Let's Build Cities Way Out Yonder Frank L. Hope, Jr. 114 Let's Make More Habitable the Cities We Have Wolf Von Eckardt 116 Singapore: the Country that Remade its Environment Jonathan Yuen 118 Architecture as a Bio-Science Balwant Singh Saini 120 An Engels' Vision Blurred by East Europe's Pollution Dan Morgan 126 A Theology of the Earth Rene Dubos 130 The Three Day Week is Where We're Headed (quotes) Millard Faught 136 Cultural Policy A Modern Dilemma Frank McDermott 137 The Thousand and One Facets of Culture 143 Today's Humor A Weapon That Kills All Feeling Clifton Fadiman 149 Environmental Management as an Ethical System (Environment: A Challenge for Modern Society) Lynton Keith Caldwell 152 Survival U. is Alive and Burgeoning in Green Bay, Wisconsin John Fischer 161 Ecology Heart of Our University Program Edward W. Weidner 166 Making Tomorrow Now Matthew J. Brennan 169 Letters to the Editor You and the Ecology Movement (Natural History Magazine) 172 America is Finally Born Into History Henry Fair lie 181 Epilogue: The Editor's Raymond F. Kohn 188 4 AUTHOR PROFILES ALDO LEOPOLD (1887-1948) is widely regarded as the first of our modern day ecologists. At his death he was Professor of Game Management at the University of Wisconsin, a chair especially created for him in 1933. Ironically, he lost his life fighting a brush fire on a neighbor's farm, just as he was about to assume another assignment as adviser on conservation to the United Nations. (Editor's Note: A Sand County Almanac for your own sake and that of your children and theirs read it! There's a built-in guaranteeit will change your outlook "on" and "or' life. Now available in paperback (Ballantine Books) at newsstands. BARRY COMMONER, biologist, educator, author of PAUL EHRLICH and Wife, ANNE, continuing the for- "ScienceandSurvival",Chairman, Department of mer's crusade for world awareness of the population Botany, Washington University, St. Louis.. problem. HeisProfessorofBiology,Stanford University... LEWIS MUMFORD, author, historian and urbanologist, has written extensively on the plight of modern civiliza- JOHN B. CALHOUN, Chief, Unit for Research Into tion from both a physical and metaphysical view- point.. Behavioral Systems, National Institute of Mental Health HAROLD L. DAVIS, editor, Physics Today... ROBERT CASSIDY, book reviewer, The Washington Post.. ROBERT G. FRANKE, Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, and Chairman, Biology ROBERT ALEX BARON, ex-theater manager, head of Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.. anti-noise organization, Citizens for a Quieter City. .. international lecturer on noise control. .. PAUL J. BOHANNAN, distinguished anthropologist and former Rhodes Scholar, teaches at Northwestern Univer- WOLF VON ECKARDT, architecturaleditor, The sity, Evanston, Illinois... Washington Post.. LEROY S. WEHRLE, Director IllinoisInstitute for MOSHE SAFDIE, Israeli born, immigrated to Canada at Social Policy, Springfield, Illinois.. age 15, designer of Habitat for Montreal's Expo '67... MAYA PINES, freelance writer, author of "Revolution FRANK L. HOPE, JR., president, Frank L. Hope and in Learning, The Years from Birth to 6", writes of Associates, San Diego architectural and planning firm, Jerome Bruner, Director, Center for Cognitive Studies, and president-elect, California Council of the American Harvard University... Institute of Architects... RONALD GROSS, VicePresident, Academyfor JONATHAN YUEN, with Mobil Oil, Malaya... Educational Development... BA LWANT SINGH SAINI,DirectorPost-graduate JOHN HOLT, educator, author; his books and publica- Studies in Architecture and Building, University of Mel- tions have become standard works in the field of educa- bourne and author of "Architecture in Tropical Aus- tion... tralia"... RICHARD CRITCHFIELD, AliciaPattersonFund DAN MORGAN, The Washington Post, East European Fellow on leave from The Washington Star.. Correspondent... CLAIRE STERLING, freelance writer, based in Rome, is RENE DUBOS, Professor of Bacteriology at Rockefeller currently reporting on world ecological problems for University, New York City, author of many books in the The Washington Post. .. field of medicine and human environment... 5 MILLARD FAUGHT (`the three day week is where we're headed') works seven days a week for the Time- UNITED STATES NATIONAL COMMISSION wealth Corp., Houston, Texas.. FOR UNESCO Officers Chairman: FRANK McDERMOTT, Editor, The Office of Assistant A. Marvin Braverman Director-General for Social Sciences, Human Sciences Vice Chairmen: and Culture, UNESCO, Paris... John S. Dickey Miss Jean Fairfax Miss Barbara Stuhler CLIFTON FADIMAN, moderator of yesterday's radio Executive Secretary: and TV panel show "Information Please", and Associate L. A. Minnich Editor, Gateway to Great Books... Fourteenth Conference Chairman: LYNTON K. CALDWELL, Professor of Political Science Rev. Laurence T. Murphy at Indiana University. He has been associated with the Consultants: Walter K. Beggs Council of State Governments, AID and the United William Harley Nations.. Norton S. Ginsburg Nathan E. Jacobs Wesley C. Meierhenry JOHN FISCHER, recently recalled from retirement to G. Robert Ross temporarily assume his former post as editor,Harper's Barbara Stuhler Magazine. His far-ranging observations from "The Easy Conference Director: Raymond F. Kohn Chair" have long been a feature of Harper's... Administrative Officer: Ann F. Jablonski EDWARD W. WEIDNER, Chancellor, The University of Press Officer: Wisconsin Green Bay... Anthony F. Merrill Midwest Coordinator: L. M. Bradley, Creighton University, Omaha MATTHEW J. BRENNAN, UNESCO Director, Vene- The National Commission was created by Congress zuelan Conservation Curriculum Project... and consists of 100 members appointed by the Secre- tary of State. Of these, 60 represent nongovernmental organizations, while 10 are appointed from the Fed- eral Government, 15 from State and Local Govern- HENRY FAIRLIE veteran British Journalist based in ment, and 15 at large. Washington, D.C. .. "The chess-board is the world; the piecesare the phenomena of the universe; the rules of.the game are whatwe call the laws of Nature. The player
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