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Special Issue: Physics and the Environment

NOV 01, 1994

DOI: 10.1063/1.881422

Robert H. Socolow

Planet Earth is too small. Our activities as a species are constrained by our environment in more complex and subtle ways than we understood only a few decades ago. We have been living within fences and only now have found these fences. What a loss of innocence!

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Robert H. Socolow. Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University.

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Volume 47, Number 11

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