1/2 The ecological problem with its many aspects: wholesale pollution, nuisances, the production of new chemical elements that do not exist in nature, the final exhaustion (at a time that cannot be calculated with exactitude) of natural resources, the great threat to our water, the destruction of the countryside, the wasting of tillable soil-these facts are hard to dispute today, in spite of some opposition. They are all the result of frenzied growth, of the unrestricted