“Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?” ProblemWaitingStepsCasesEnvironmentResourcesSolveNuclearSecureLatterOur FutureHolocaustPollutionSelectionExhaustionExplicitOverpopulation Author:B. F. Skinner
“If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.” IfsTryingAgeChangeEnvironmentChange Yourself Author:B. F. Skinner
“In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.” IfsPersonsDoeTogetherViewsPracticeEnvironmentBehaviorRelationResponsibleTraditionalAnalysisAutonomous Author:B. F. Skinner
“Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.” PeopleIfsNeedsHumansArtWarPhilosophyUseNationsPracticeHistoryEnvironmentConditionsChangedBehaviorPopulationNuclearAbandonedHolocaustPollutionHuman BehaviorContraceptives Author:B. F. Skinner
“Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.” PeoplePracticeEnvironmentCrowdsAbandonedOvercrowding Author:B. F. Skinner
