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...Calhoun started with eight mice in an null cage; within a little more than two years, they had multiplied to 2,200, but they were hardly alive-mere "passive blobs of protoplasm, frozen in a childlike trance." Summing up the sentiments of many population experts, Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich (who has had himself sterilized) concludes that "if we don't do something dramatic about population and environment, and do it immediately, there is just no hope that civilization will persist...
Playing Mistress Margery, Susan Ehrlich has firm control of her part, though as the program notes inform us, she assumed it less than two weeks ago. She is completely convincing as the artless girl, unschooled in the ways of the city, but eager to learn...
Crowds and Crime. Biologist Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University's outspoken population expert, has always predicted war, pestilence and famine as eventual consequences of mankind's proliferation. Citing several studies, he said at the A.A.A.S. meeting that population pressures already are spawning new social problems. In particular, crowded cities seem inevitably to increase agressiveness, which manifests itself even now in general disorder and steadily soaring crime rates...
Garrett Hardin, a human ecologist at the University of California in Santa Barbara, bolstered Ehrlich's argument with a neat analogy. "We have been sold on the idea of economy of scale." he said. "But this economy does not hold when it comes to relational matters. The size of your phone bill goes up with the size of your city. You have to pay for the privilege of talking with more people." The bigger the population gets, he went on, the more vulnerable the phone, mail and other complex systems become...
...more than 50. In San Francisco, which has 1,800 policemen, all 85 of the blacks belong to Officers for Justice, founded two years ago to redress black grievances. Among them: the regular police organization refused legal aid to black cops charged with off-duty offenses, but hired Jake Ehrlicha well-known California criminal lawyerto defend a white cop accused of manslaughter. The Guardians, once only a social organization of black patrolmen, but now increasingly militant, have chapters in many cities. In New York City, for example, they count 75% of the 2,400 black cops...