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...Doomsday Dynamite...
...instructive to note that the Doomsday mind, like so many things, can be turned to profit. A group of California land developers has founded something called the Scott Meadows Club-712 acres of fertile Sierra wilderness in Northern California's Siskiyou County, all set aside as a secret retreat, once civilization as we know it has disintegrated. For a modest membership fee of $12,500 and annual dues of only $300, members are allocated space in a "security building" to store a year's cache of dehydrated food for each individual in the family; the payment also provides...
AEROSOL: A DEFENSE. Over the past two years, several scientists have become concerned about fluorocarbon propellants, used in aerosol sprays, drifting up through the stratosphere. In their doomsday scenario, these fluorocarbons break down to form chlorine atoms that gradually destroy the ozone shield protecting the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays; this, in turn, increases the risk that humans down on earth will develop skin cancer...
...years after his death at 46, Orwell is enshrined in the language as a cliché for apocalypse. Virtually every doomsday prophecy uses "Orwellian" to describe any impingement on freedom, from imprisonment to wiretapping. Yet the word derives from Orwell's least characteristic book...
Even scientists sympathetic with the institute's philosophy are highly skeptical that such techniques can make much of a dent in the world's enormous food needs. Nor do they all agree with the new alchemists' doomsday vision of the future of the Green Revolution. But, as the journal Science points out, there is no doubt that Todd and McLarney, in their idealistic quest, have shown that there may be a place alongside traditional agriculture "for the arks and other food-producing devices created in the new alchemists' crucibles...