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destructive. These powerful, deeply entrenched rela-
tionships have locked us into a self-destructive course.
"If we are to break out of this suicidal track, we
must begin by learning the ecological facts of life. . . .
We must discover how to mold the technology to the
necessities of nature and learn how these constraints
must temper the economic and social demands on
technology. This is the momentous task that confronts
mankind."
In terms that boys can understand, let's, for ex-
ample, take a carton of milk and look at the web of
interrelationships that produce it.
We know milk comes from cows, and cows eat
grass. Grass and other plants are basic sources of
food, for green plants do something that animals
cannot. They have the ability to make simple foods
from the basic elements of carbon, hydrogen, and
oxygen.
A green plant is a sort of factory. It gets its power
from the sun and its raw materials from the air, water,
and soil.
So a carton of milk is truly the product of all our
natural resources. Without any one of them, there
would be no grass and consequently no milk. It is the
natural resources working together that produce the
food for man and animals.
For the complete story of this process, read Con-
servation—Your Choice, No. 7172, 35 cents, and
Project SOAR (formerly 1971 Conservation Good
Turn), No. 7171, 35 cents, available from BSA Supply
Division, North Brunswick, N.J. 08902.
An effective way to get this story across to boys is
to have them make three-dimensional models of the
illustrations below and give examples of inter-
relationships that exist among the various elements
involved. Point out with specific examples what might
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