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Cite as:
H. R. Williams
. (1972) Engineering and Ecology: Opening address: Engineering and ecology—what is at issue?. Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society 19: 5 – 6

H. R. Williams
  1. General Manager, Shell B.P. Todd Oil Services.
Abstract

Emotion rather than studied reason seems to pervade virtually all discussions of environmental problems these days. "Pollution" has become a loaded word implicitly condemning what it describes. The anti-pollution lobby is vociferous and its condemnation of industry may be dangerously indiscriminate; pollution is an economic not a moral issue.

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