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...informed" readers who had already read enough about the not-so-current issue. My prediction is that when there is another coincidence of visible large scale famine in less developed societies and sudden food supply threats in developed ones, the issue of food will again seem to ssume the Malthusian dimensions it had before; that when the "price we pay for bread and steak" hits home as hard as it did after the wheat deals, we will get public coverage on the same scale...
...people per month. The U.S. National Security Council has said that runaway population growth is "a threat to our national security. " Nonetheless, some analysts see cause for hope-if action is taken in time. Among them is World Bank President Robert S. McNamara, who examined the status of the Malthusian threat and what can be done about it in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Excerpts...
Herbert brings in potentially captivating ideas: the fantasy version of a Malthusian crisis and the clash of two omnicompetent cults both of which are the playthings of a greater power. However, he fails to develop them beyond the elementary stages. The lifestyle of those doomed to live on the rim goes unexplored when it could be the most graphic part of the book. Herbert only touches on the training it takes to be a Legum, how the newly indoctrinated members shed their skins (that is much easier for a frog to do than a human.) Herbert should initiate the reader...
Hirsch says the concerns about limits to growth that the Club of Rome has voiced are off target. This informal group of scientists and economists warned of such Malthusian type of world disasters as starvation and over-crowding in the famous Limits to Growth...
...have a classic Malthusian case of exponential growth against a finite source," explained Schlesinger. "On the demand side, we have the additional problem that increasingly our energy system generates waste, a high degree of inefficiency. On the supply side of the problem, we have the additional embarrassment that we have become unduly dependent on foreign sources. Some other nations also are highly dependent on foreign sources, but it is a special problem for the great stabilizing power of the West, which requires a high degree of economic and political invulnerability...