ABSTRACT
E. F. Schumacher's disciples travel around the Third World teaching appropriate technology to the peasants in an imitation of Keynesian foreign aid. The environmentalists lobby, testify, and sue, trying to loosen the grip of the corporations on government policy and practice. Anarchists live in rural communes powered by solar energy and develop a technology and social organization appropriate to human survival. Thus action runs the gamut from liberal reform through revolutionary mass organizing to the abandonment of a dying society and construction of a new one in the ruins of the old. Ecosystems, and the biosphere, have evolved in stages of ecological succession, from the beginning of life to the present. The appropriate technology would be small scale, adapted both to the economics of solar energy and to the human capacity for creative labor; it would be "technology with a human face". The ecological standpoint enables one to see the inadequacy concepts of nature, by providing with a adequate concept.
