Low Energy Growth Study
Summary
plant ecologist , a limnologist, and a re- The vehide to convey McHarg's all - of Emerson and Thoreau. Then on to hu· source economist. Students arc required embracing personal vision has been a man behavior, the effects of environ- to have competence in the physical sci- course he ha been running for the past mental stress and overcrowding- and a ences. the biological sciences. and eth- 15 years. called "man and the environ- discussion of the Midtown Manhattao nography and anthropology. Th e aim is ment." Each year he in v it e~ a series of Study of 1962 in which it was concluded to produce "applied human ecologists" distingui shed lecturers to take student s that 20 percent of the population were equipped with a "working method which through th e evolution of the cosmos. the indistinguishable fro m patients in mental allows them to go anyplace using scientif- solar system. plant s and animals. the institutions. ic data and perceptions to find out what it bio!>ph ere. and finally. ~be evolutio n of Finally. students hear speakers whose is, why it is w hat it is, and where it' s man. With man thu s put in perspec ti ve, thinking may offer guidance toward the going, and also to know of people why lectures move on to "the atti tudes to- shaping of a healthier future. Among the y arc where they are and what they're ward God. man, and natu re represented these have been poet Howard Nemerov, doing, and to ask the people what their in the major philosophies and theologies natu ral ist Loren Eisel ey, L ewis Mum- perception s of their natural and social of the world ," from the polytheism of ford, Margaret Mead , Hans Selye, Barry environment are
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