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Hubris, exemplified in the demands we make on science, is a major obstacle to coming to grips with our situation. We are obsessed with trying to predict, manage, and control nature, and consequently we pour immense intellectual and fiscal resources into huge research programs—from the Human Genome Project to the U.S. Global Change Research Program—aimed at this unattainable goal. On the other hand, we devote little effort to the apparently modest yet absolutely essential question of how, given our unavoidable limits, we can manage to live in harmony with the world that we have inherited and are continually remaking.
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Jamison, A. (2013). Conclusions. In: The Making of Green Engineers. Synthesis Lectures on Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-79354-7_7
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