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Nature 451, 301-303 (17 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature06595; Published online 16 January 2008
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Essay Earth science and society
Frank Press1
Abstract
The unique set of challenges that face humankind today mean that it is more essential than ever that Earth scientists apply their understanding of the planet to benefit society and that society invite them to do so.
In a single sentence of a speech to the Royal Society, in London, in 1988, Margaret Thatcher succinctly connected science to the creation of social wealth when she said: "the value of Faraday's work today must be higher than the capitalization of all the shares on the stock exchange." Add a few other examples of the work of scientists that has transformed society, such as the Green Revolution in world agriculture, the transistor revolution that opened closed societies to change and the biomedical revolution set off by molecular biology, and the benefits of science to society take on real meaning.
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