Green Chemistry as Social Movement

The question posed was whether there are circumstances under which scientists and engineers doing their ordinary jobs can be thought of as participants in a social movement, and the answer is of course yes. It is tricky stuff, sometimes, the "pure science" of just discover what you discover, and leave politics to politicians, and the thought of scientists as participants. I know, but ethics plays a role in all we discover, and more importantly, in the directions we look towards, in search of discovery. I think of the physicists that inadvertently played a role in ushering in the era of nuclear warfare, and I know they didn't mean to go there. yet so much scientific research is funded by the military, or by big pharma, and so little by the environmentalists. So, it seems to keep coming down to money, and maybe not making big bucks for morally reprehensible industries is the first step, and instead being happy with the low income of the environmental engineers and scientists, or even better, as we come to realize, convince thebigger industries that there is money to be made in saving the planet and truly healing, rather than in war and viagra.