Few will still doubt that our modern technological culture has reached a turning point, and that it must change drastically if we are to manage our environmental problems. It may not yet be as widely appreciated that science, hitherto the mainspring of that technological progress, must also change. From now on its central task must be concerned with the patholo-gies of our industrial System; and
... [Show full abstract] this imposes new problems and requires new methods. These are the subject our of study.