contain the resultant instabilities, we must respond to 
unprecedented demands on our capabilities to manage 
national resources. These demands, in turn, aggregate 
into new imperatives to understand the behavior of 
the oceans and the atmosphere and the linkages which 
connect them, and to relate them, through climate, to 
the productivity of our agricultural enterprise, and to 
the capacity to absorb waste heat and materials from 
our industrial enterprise. 
NACOA is pursuaded that if we, as a nation, are to cope 
successfully with the needs for energy, food, and 
materials that will confront us with ever-increasing 
insistency and urgency over the balance of this century, 
we must deepen our understanding of the combined 
influences of ocean and atmosphere on climate, we 
must strengthen the mechanism by which we-convert 
technological dexterity into effective utilization of the 
mineral and protein resources of the oceans, and we 
must marshal and husband the resources of our gov- 
ernmental agencies to do this. The diversity and com- 
bined strengths of our governmental agencies, and 
their ability to complement each other, are so great 
we do not believe major new investment is required. 
Some increased funding will be needed in certain 
areas; reorientation of effort should suffice in others. 
While we are not in a position to recommend precise 
action on program details, we are in a position, and 
in fact have the responsibility, to recommend how our 
sights should be set. 
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