The Life Sciences Recent Progress and Application to Human Affairs The World of Biological Research Requirements for the Future (1970) / Chapter Skim
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National Considerations
National Considerations
Pages 351-356
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Assuming that our total sample embraced 60 percent of all eligible research-performing departments in the life sciences, and neglecting the clinical departments, it would appear that approximately 2 million square feet of space was required to meet the total anticipated increment in graduate student enrollment, which was, in 1967, not even in the planning phase. Assuming further that net usable space is approximately two thirds of each building, the gross square feet required would be 3 million, which, at $50 per square foot, would require $150 million in construction costs.
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These may include vessels and experimental hatcheries for the Bureau of Fisheries as it attempts to develop "fish factories" analogous to modern "chicken factories," control of an estuary or bay for experimental aquiculture by the Department of Agriculture, test facilities for the Atomic Energy Commission to assess the reality of "thermal pollution," a large policy-oriented environmental studies institute sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Department of the Interior, or any new agency concerned with environmental quality, the totality of biological sophistication and technology required for an effective program in the National Institute for Environmental Health, satellites for monitoring gross ecological effects by remote sensors, a manned orbiting laboratory to establish the influence of lack of gravity on embryonic development, adult physiology, and circadian rhythms by the National Aeronautics and Space Ad 353
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As patronage passed to governments and foundations, these collections were left bereft; they remained housed in nineteenth century buildings and became increasingly crowded as the collections grew. The National Science Foundation has become the only significant source of funds for this enterprise, but the level of funding is scarcely commensurate with the need.
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Great collectors arid philanthropists have presented to this nation some of the greatest records of natural history, which have in recent times been treated with singular indifference. If we cannot retain undisturbed the various natural ecosystems of the world, at least we should preserve the records of their plant and animal communities.
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Today, the life sciences are poised to explore the most arcane mysteries of life and, with the aid of only a moderate rate of increase in public support, they can attempt to provide a foundation for the measures required to counteract some of the oldest enemies of manthe diseases to which he is subject-to protect the quality of the environment and the habitability of planet Earth, to assist in limiting the burden of an excessive human population, and to assure an adequate food supply for all. No guarantees can be offered in good conscience.
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