Word: overcrowding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of himself as the favored child of the universe has only led him to poison, pollute, exploit and overcrowd this earth. Man must realize that he is a part of nature; it does not exist solely for his benefit...
...being kept awake all night by twanging West Indian music. Since immigrant shopkeepers are willing to keep longer hours, white merchants resent the competition. More seriously, the immigrants vie for low-cost housing, which is scarce in Britain. Unwelcome in many localities, the new minority groups cluster together and overcrowd their neighborhoods, forcing out white families. Since most immigrants are raising families themselves, they overburden the schools, maternity hospitals and welfare clinics in areas where they have congregated...
Even if such hostilities never materialize, there will be economic struggles to control the satellites, which are the first space ventures with a big money-making potential. As more and more countries get into the act, so many satellites may be sent into orbit that they could overcrowd the airwaves, making communication difficult or impossible...
...Viet Cong still roam virtually at will through South Viet Nam's central highlands, and recently have turned to a new, diabolical tactic. They are burning down whole villages, forcing the inhabitants to seek refuge in government-controlled sea-coast cities-and thus to overcrowd them...