“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.”
– George Perkins Marsh
Our classes were often conducted in low light, a blurry, soft-spoken figure gesticulating from the front. “Don’t just flick on a light switch,” exhorted Frank Fisher. “Think about the process involved in generating the energy for that light – all the way from the coal-fired power plant to this light switch – and ask yourself, ...
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