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Development and the Environment

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Technological Transformation

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Nearly all of us wish our own countries to develop, but we do not all want the same type of development, partly because we often overlook the fact that development is multidimensional. Likewise, all of us wish to continue utilizing and enjoying the environment, but few of us know what to do to protect it; and those who know how to protect it without sacrificing national development are even fewer.

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  1. Mario Bunge
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  1. Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA

    Edmund F. Byrne

  2. Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic & State University, Blacksburg, USA

    Joseph C. Pitt

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Bunge, M. (1989). Development and the Environment. In: Byrne, E.F., Pitt, J.C. (eds) Technological Transformation. Philosophy and Technology, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2597-7_19

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