Environmental Ends and Engineering Means: Becoming Environmental Engineers for the Nation and the World
Abstract
Humanity is moving toward a new consciousness of Earth and nature. The consciousness has been stimulated by often confusing and bitter debates among the engineering and environmental communities. Unfortunately, such experience has left a stronger impression of adversarial rather than cooperative relationships. This impression is and will change. At the bottom line, the public engineering community share interests with the environmental community that are far deeper than the often held adversarial positions they frequently defend. Public service engineers, the environmental community and the public(s), need credible governmental agents as instruments to achieve environmental goals. If government is viewed as incompetent, inefficient or untrustworthy, both the environmental community and the public engineers will suffer. In short, the environmental community and the engineers need one another. To reach environmental ends, the world needs engineering means. To employ engineering means requires justification in terms of environmental ends.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA240798
Entities
People
- Jerome D. Priscoli