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Motherhood was almost a dirty word here-but it had its defenders. At the scientists' Environment Forum, Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich blamed half the world's environmental problems on increases in population. A woman biologist from Nigeria, aided by four burly colleagues, startled the audience by seizing Ehrlich's microphone and declaring that birth control was merely a way for the industrial powers to remain rich by preserving the status quo. Peace was restored only after Ehrlich conceded that the U.S. should curb its own consumption of natural resources before urging population controls on developing countries. Brazilian...
Owner Arthur Ehrlich, after complaining strenuously that he could not make a living on wholesome entertainment, finally capitulated to the determined mothers, who insisted that they would support family films. Ehrlich agreed to a trial period beginning Dec. 1, in which he would show only G-rated movies. He leased the popular picture Planet of the Apes, as well as other family films, and even reduced the adult-admission price from $3 to $1.25. Then he waited for the deluge of upright parents and gladsome children...
...never came. On one weekend Ehrlich took in less than $300, hardly enough to pay his utilities bill. He quickly returned to porn and higher prices; the voyeurs poured back in. The problem will surely crop up elsewhere, though. Perhaps the answer is movies that would appeal to both elements -say, Lassie Goes to Tijuana or Gidget's Night on an Aircraft Carrier...
...Americans, for example, throw away more than 1,000,000 cars every year, plus 36 billion bottles and 58 million tons of paper. Aside from polluting the land and water, the critics say, this vast consumption threatens to strip the earth of its resources. In the rhetoric of Paul Ehrlich, "America's pride in her growing population may be compared to a cancer patient's pride in his expanding tumor...
...have already exceeded it, gentlemen; we have already exceeded it," says Dr. John H. Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Ehrlich is more specific: he believes that the U.S. population should be about 25% less than at present. Stewart Udall, former Secretary of the Interior, goes even further. Without suggesting how it could be achieved, he favors a cut of about half...