Abstract
Ever since we heard it some months ago, the suggestion by Associated Press science editor Alton Blakeslee that man is a virus that is chewing up the earth and its environs and is now reaching out to destroy the moon has haunted us. It's the sort of disquieting thought that twists and turns in your mind like a bad dream. Yet it was a fitting concept to carry into last week's Earth Day. For the more you think about it, the more you come to realize that Mr. Blakeslee has summed up man's present condition with numbing accuracy. In the light of Mr. Blakeslee's remark, the journey of the tanker Manhattan through the ice-clogged Arctic comes off somewhat less nobly than Humble Oil's PR department would have you believe. Visions of a trans-Alaska or Mackenzie River pipeline don't fare much better. In fact, such ideas seem almost sinister. Instead of the epic adventures of other ...
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