The power of science and technology - So They Say - Brief Article

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm and Resource Issues, Summer, 2002

In a December 2001 lecture at Yale University, David Ehrenfeld said, "...[M]ore than two hundred years of potent scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs...have taught us to believe that science and technology...constitute the highest power we need to consult in our daily lives. In our euphoria we forget that technology is unable, both in theory and in practice, to resolve most of the practical problems that it itself creates." As quoted in Ehrenfeld, David.

"The Cow Tipping Point." Harper's Magazine. October 2002, 13-20.