Richard G. Petty, MD

Nature and Technology

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“The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.”

–Ernst Friedrich (“E. F.”) Schumacher


 (German-born British Economist and Developer of Concepts of Intermediate Technology and Author of Small is Beautiful, 1911-1977)   


“Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered” (E. F. Schumacher)

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