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A. J. Teller, Dean

July 10, 1969

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Stanford University Medical Center
Dept. of Genetics

Stanford, California 94305

Dear Prof, Lederberg:

I'm afraid that the "Times" article did not convey
the basic idea of the talk as adequately as I hoped it would.

The essential idea was that pollution is caused
by a provincialism of thinking, bounded unrealistically by restrict-
ing the problem as you so well put,it in the 5/24/69 article in ;
the Washington Post. The great mass of pollution is caused by in-
complete use of materials as a result of basing values on extrac-
tion costs.

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The objective of the talk, a copy of which is
appended, is to stimulate the development of social economics,
incorporating values other than that of extraction into the price of
materials, so that complete and effective utilization of our re-
sources is achieved,

Thank you for your interest and for the copies of
the very effective and provocative articles,

Singerel

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A. J. Teller
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