The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most important industries
in the world, offering new medicines, vaccines, and cures to a
global population. It is a massive industry, worthy of a deep
and thorough examination of its processes and chemistry, with a
view toward sustainability. The authors describe what is and
isn't truly sustainable, offering a new approach and a new
definition of the sustainability of pharmaceutical and chemical
engineering and the science behind it. This is a cutting-edge
work, aimed at engineers, scientists, researchers, chemists, and
students.

M. R. Islam, PhD is a world-wide consultant on environment and energy-related issues. Dr. Islam is known as the most published engineer in the world. He is credited to have coined terms, such as "green petroleum" and "sustainable petroleum development" at a time when "sustainable petroleum" was considered to be an oxymoron. Dr. Islam's most notable contributions are in the areas of sustainability, environmental integrity, and knowledge modeling, on which topic he has written dozens of books and over 700 research papers.

Jaan S. Islam has been active in research on the topics of science and social science. He is a co-author of the theory of mass, energy, time, and human thought material that formed the core of a number of books, including the current series. His previous works include Reconstituting the Curriculum (with M.R. Islam & Gary Zatzman).

Gary M. Zatzman has decades of investigative journalism and research experience, dozens of articles in technical journals, and four previously published books:?Sustainable Resource Development, Sustainable Energy Pricing,?Economics of Intangibles?(with M.R. Islam), and?Reconstituting the Curriculum (with M.R. & J.S. Islam).

M. Safiur Rahman, PhD is the principal scientific officer at Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission in the field of environmental engineering. Since 2000, Dr. Rahman has been carrying out research works related to the distribution of toxic trace elements in surface and ground water, food chains and the environment for many government agencies and has published over 100 scientific articles and several books.

M.A.H. Mughal is a prominent philanthropist, author, speaker, mentor and a business consultant with 22 years of global experience with some of the world's top companies. He is the author of many articles and is a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society and holds many professional designations.

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Preface

In the double-barreled sense of the ancient Chinese proverb about "living in interesting times", the epoch we moderns inhabit is "interesting" indeed. Everything jumps out in the form of contradiction upon contradiction.

We are witness to unprecedented progress in technological development. Meanwhile, no less a personage than Nobel Chemistry Laureate Robert Curl can suppress mentioning that our era is a 'technological disaster' pregnant with as-yet-unknown portents.

Acutely attuned to signs of open savagery and other lesser levels of indifference and lack of empathy, we proudly assert our embrace of modern-day Enlightenment on an ever-more-encompassing scale. That said, whence the dissonant drumbeat emanating simultaneously from some of the most ardent supporters of modern European capitalism? Pope Francis insists with the greatest indignation that unfair economic structures today are devastating entire continents (like South America, his home continent), compounding huge inequalities within and between countries. As His Holiness himself acknowledged, these inequalitie themselves constitute acts of the most unbridled terrorism, threatening all while apparently not actually aimed at or singling out any one country or people over others.

Those ruling us from on high deceive others, if not themselves, that we have reached the pinnacle of human equality and democratic values. Meanwhile, cognitive dissonance is fuelled by such Nobel Peace laureates as U.S. President Obama and the Egyptian politician Mohamed el-Baradei accepting without elaboration that such rights in practice belong only to a small group. This is no longer in the realm of Noam Chomsky's "manufactured consent". This is deliberately-fostered disinformation trundled out in a form created and purveyed in Hollywood movies populated by some of the most accomplished actors of our time such as Jack Nicholson's portrayal of the eternally victimized Josie Wales in Cool Hand Luke being casually yet viciously brutalized by the Sherriff, his tormentor, who "explains" to the audience that "What we have here is a failure to communicate."

The realities rendered utterly incoherent by such twisting and reversal of roles include the news of the July 2013 military coup led by General Sisi, the US War College graduate and treacherous Defence Minister in the cabinet of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. President Morsi stands indicted before the entire world, and sentenced to be hanged as the first ever democratically elected president of Egypt. The US celebration of this latest outrage is foisted on the world in an utterly disinformed and disinforming headline: "Kerry Lauds Egypt Military for 'Restoring Democracy'".

We continuously hear about the threats to human existence that loom, while the effort to find serious possible solutions is accompanied by extremely toxic slogans developed over the last 20 years such as: 'save the planet and decrease population', and 'save the planet and plant trees', etc. While the intention may seem pro-Humanity, the complete absence of anything scientific in the foundations of these propositions ... ... that reduce the serious search for a truly balanced application of actual natural law to nothing but sloganeering.

Meanwhile, the sphere of human-set judicial law, outside the realm of formal science, is attacked via the same disinforming methodology. Thus, for example, revising our laws, claiming we are reaching pinnacle of justice, only to read (with a gasp) in the Washington Post that "US Court System Criminally Unjust". 1

We brag about how we have so many breakthrough technologies in medical science, resulting in record breaking profit for every new medicine, yet we discover there is no cure to a single medicine. We brag about saving children at birth and prolonging life expectancy only to discover record breaking rate of abortion and suicide (1.5 milli

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