Implication of growth problems on science, technology and society
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Assembly debate on 24 April 1975 (6th and 7th Sittings) (seeDoc. 3603, report of the Committee on Science and Technology). Text adopted by the Assembly on 24 April 1975 (7th Sitting).
The Assembly,
1. Recalling its
Recommendation 678 (1972) which took into account the relationship between scientific progress, economic growth and the environment, as well as the relationship between science and government, and the role of parliaments in scientific and technological society ;
2. Having regard to the determining influence of scientific discoveries, technological developments and innovations on society,
3. Believes, as recognised in paragraph 2 of
Recommendation 678 (1972), that policies for science and technology should not be at the expense of living standards ;
4. Considers that existing vertical structures of government and of science are ill adapted to solving the many problems connected with limits to growth and the world "problematique" ;
5. Having examined the report on science and technology and society of its Committee on Science and Technology (
Doc. 3603),
6. Instructs its Committee on Science and Technology to continue examining the interrelationship between science, technology and society, taking into account problems of growth, of resources and of the world's interdependence, and to report back in due course.
