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...question Meadows had to answer was: How long can population and industrialization continue to grow on this finite planet? Unlike the doomsday ecologists who predict that man will drown in pollution or starve because of overpopulation, Meadows' system concludes that the depletion of nonrenewable resources will probably cause the end of the civilization enjoyed by today's contented consumer...
Bowl. Dallas has the "Doomsday Defense," big, tenacious, experienced. Miami has the "No Name Defense," young, quick, aggressive. Dallas has Wide Receiver Bob Hayes, the fastest man in the N.F.C. Miami has Paul Warfield, the most elusive. Dallas has Running Backs Duane Thomas and Calvin Hill, the best one-two punch in the N.F.C. Miami has Backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, the best in the A.F.C. Dallas has Ron Widby, one of the top punters in the N.F.C...
That fact alone might suggest that the predictions of a population doomsday, at least as far as the U.S. is concerned, have been exaggerated. It should be added, though, that the children of the post-World War II baby boom are now getting married, and even if the birth rate dropped to 2.1 immediately, it would take two generations for the American population to level off at about...
...Doomsday Books. The heresy that Schall attacks is most evident in the U.S., the world's leading proponent of ecology. In fact, he says, the grim ecologist is a peculiarly American phenomenon. "Today," he explains, "the doomsday books are being written by the ecologists and biologists who have lost their confidence that tomorrow can be better, that something new can really come into the world through man and his intelligence." Technology, he believes, can provide that something, perhaps in the form of the mass-produced housing and unlimited electrical power proposed by Buckminster Fuller...
...journey is Glen and Randa, a primitive, desperate odyssey by the last bewildered survivors of an atomic holocaust, stumbling through the wreckage of a vanished civilization. Neither moralizing sci-fi nor melodrama, despite its fanciful premise, the film is rather like a cinéma vérité doomsday documentary-a parable in newsreel form...