Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harnessed high above the earth, where it would produce no thermal, chemical or radioactive pollution, a single mini-black hole could fulfill all of mankind's power needs for the foreseeable future...
...from economists -Heilbroner is chairman of the department of economics at the New School for Social Research - but from politicians and editorial writers, to say noth ing of gasoline-station attendants. By now the poor patient knows Doc Heilbroner's gloomy figures practically by heart. Every ten years mankind's ener gy demands double. And even if they are met by extractions from granite or sea water or God knows what, thermal pollution will increase by 100% in the next couple of centuries, driving atmo spheric temperatures up an intolerable 50 degrees Centigrade. The population will be doubling...
Revelle said before an audience of about 100 in the Science Center that the means exist to conserve resources only if mankind would realize the need to do so. He blamed short-sighted world leaders for inadequate planning, especially for the failure to stabilize the burgeoning world population...
...conventional war would be the longest and bloodiest of all the wars that mankind has ever fought. Like the Viet Nam War, it will certainly last a minimum of ten to 15 years. War with China is bound to cost us 60 million souls at the very least and, as always in wars, they will be the very best souls-all our finest and purest people are bound to perish there. After this war, the Russian people will virtually cease to exist on this planet...
...should be strongly emphasized that the same comparisons were made by many American citizens of Eastern European descent who fled from their native countries at the close of the Second World War. Those refugees left their native countries because they considered Communism the curse and pestilence of mankind...