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Shechtman International Symposium, Cancun, Mexico, June 29 - July 04 2014 The Role of Science, Engineering, Management and Politics: Reflections from Dan Shechtman's Story
Florian Kongoli ¹ ;
¹FLOGEN Technologies Inc,1255 Laird Blvd., Ste.388, Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada

Keywords : sustainability, environment, economy, society, definitions, sciences, engineering, technologies, coordination, silent stars.

ABSTRACT

Sustainability is a term that is used so frequently today in every field of life. You hear it everywhere; especially in political gatherings. Various serious risks that face our planet are frequently and rightfully stated if we do not become sustainable. These include the evaluation that not enough food and water will be available by 2050 for the forecasted 9 billion people living on the planet or that an increase of the global average temperature of the planet above a tipping point will itself be destructive. Many ways are proposed to make the world sustainable however not the right attention has been concentrated on the role of science and technology. The purpose of this lecture is to assess the primary role that science and technology play in the noble quest to make the world sustainable, to highlight the role of scientists, technologists and engineers as silent stars of our society, to stress the need for much better societal recognition for them and better funding to their work while suggesting better coordination among various fields of life and science and technology. This paper contains some extracts from the book “Silent Stars of Society” by the same author that is in print and will be available soon.

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