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Quite clearly, I am, to myself, not a dome salesman. In fact I don’t want to be a salesman of anything. I don’t want to persuade anybody to do anything that is illogical and anti-evolutionary. I’m identified with the dome only because, back in 1927, in trying to seek out how I might be able to affect and help man most, I said: if I could only protect younger life while it still has its comprehensive interest in the total Universe and give it a chance to develop its faculties for comprehending the whole-- it would be a way in which we might most rapidly arrive at a condition where all of humanity might be a success. So, I said, this means a controlled environment, and I kept searching for ways not only of controlling it, but of using the chemistry around us in our environment so effectively that there would be enough to go round to take care of everybody and not just a few. All this brought me into very deep study of all that science was doing and all forms of industrialization, and how we could produce the most with the least. This meant then that I went into a series of experiments in how to control the environment, and it was the geodesic dome that was the practical breakthrough.
