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what are you going to do with it? And many wastes are 

 damaging to the groundwater on land and to land areas which 

 may be perfectly safely disposed of at sea. 



I mean, we live on a finite planet and it has finite 

 resources, and our problem is to make the best use of those 

 resources for human happiness. If you define human 

 happiness broadly enough, this is probably a reasonable 

 statement. We want to be sure that we preserve other 

 creatures as well as ourselves, not just to end up with 

 nothing but human beings. It would be a rather dull earth. 

 So the preservation of other species is important. We don't 

 want to endanger them. 



But we do have limitations, and the limitations about 

 wastes are, you have got to get rid of them somewhere. 

 Unless you can recycle them. Sometimes you can. There's 

 much less waste in a country like India than there is in the 

 United States, of some kinds. But other kinds, there's 

 more, and more because the technology is not good enough to 

 use them. 



Sharp: And the more advanced countries, technologically speaking, 

 actually create quite a bit more waste. 



Revelle: Oh yes, oh sure. They produce more per person. Sure. 



Sharp: Well, I think I have run out of questions for the time 

 being! 



Revelle: Okay. I have run out of ideas too! But I wish I could think 

 of the name of the secretary of that committee, that 

 commission. 



Sharp: This is the Education Commission? 



Revelle: Yes. He was such a wonderful man. It was not Pau and it 

 was not Lau, it was not Yosh. I'll probably think of it 

 after you go. ## 



