issues be sharpened. This requires a means of integrating, defining the resolution of, 

 and prioritizing issues and concerns. The effectiveness with which any of the 

 challenges encountered is dealt may depend on the ability to consolidate energy and 

 expertise. Special groups might then be given responsibility for issues requiring 

 urgent attention. 



Ultimately neither the development of a global ethic nor decentralization appear 

 likely given the present and projected human population. But there are many 

 alternatives, some of which face the challenge of adapting advanced industrial 

 societies to the realities of ecological constraints. '3''''"*'''*''''*2 Reorganization of 

 society may be energized by clearer vision of what life might be like under other 

 conditions.*' Leonard'^'' speaks of the "occasional flash of illumination that's made 

 us what we are by showing us we might become something better." Goals need to be 

 verbalized, made conscious, and means by which to establish the priority of concerns 

 they represent need to be determined and acted upon. This is an enormous 

 undertaking, one which may well challenge basic beliefs and values — the ground was 

 prepared during the seventies. 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 



Oregon State University Agricultural Experimental Station Technical Paper No. 

 6213. We gratefully acknowledge the help of C. E. Warren in reviewing this manu- 

 script, and of G. R. Marzolf, J. R. Barnes, and C. E. Gushing in reviewing an earlier 

 draft. Figure 4 has been reproduced with permission from Oxford University Press. 



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