INES ou International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility a été fondé à Berlin en novembre 1991. C’est un réseau international multidisciplinaire créé dans le but d’encourager la communication entre scientifiques et ingénieurs qui cherchent à promouvoir la paix et la sécurité générale, la justice et le développement en vue d’une utilisation responsable de la science et de la technologie.
INES a publié deux études qui méritent d’être connues. Une étude du Professeur F. Schmidt (Allemagne) qui concerne la nécessité de mettre au point un ‘équivalent monétaire’ (currency equivalent) pour les dépenses écologiques. Il faut pouvoir chiffrer tout ce qui concerne les économies à attendre de la conservation/préservation de l’environnement. Une étude relative aux activités de l’International Network of Engineers and Scientists against proliferation ou INESAP.
Il s’agit de la prolifération de armes, surtout nucléaires : prolifération horizontale (de nation à nation) ou verticale (dans un même pays).
We all know that science and technology
are most important moving forces of modern societal development since the age of the enlightenment of the 17th and 18th century. This development is most impressive, indeed, and we are proud of it. But this development has, as we all know, a severe fault. It is not sustainable and connected with more and more and increasing risks. Science and technology are more involved in producing risks than in recognizing or even preventing dangers. But the proper aim of science is to produce knowledge. This role of science is generally esteemed to be constitutive of what is called the knowledge society, which is now proclaimed and prospected. That means that science is considered to be fundamental to our modern society.
Relatively seldom the question is asked what knowledge actually is. Certainly, knowledge means chiefly know how and nothing else. This is what is wanted, this is why billions of dollars are spent every year. But who pays Dollars for knowledge wants to possess it, because – as already Francis Bacon knew – «knowledge is power.» Knowledge becomes property. Property of knowledge exist in two forms: