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ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS. The feeling that the population of the U.S.-and, indeed, that of the world-is using up too much coal, oil and just about everything else has also made many young people hesitate to have babies. Paul Ehrlich, in his 1968 book The Population Bomb, and the Club of Rome, in The Limits to Growth (1972), commanded wide attention with their predictions that the world faces catastrophe unless both economic and population growth is slowed. Such Jeremiahs have been roundly challenged, most recently by British Economist Wilfred Beckerman, whose book, In Defence of Economic Growth, argues that...
...shadows of the larger crisis have loomed over the U.S. for years. Back in the '50s, the Paley Report, commissioned by President Eisenhower, pinpointed a coming shortage of oil and coal. The warnings increased in tempo in the '60s. Biologist Paul Ehrlich was among the decade's many Cassandras. "Using straight mathematics," he now says, "what I was predicting then was foreseeable in the late '40s and early '50s. It was a case of simple multiplication-the number of people times what we were doing...
...company. Who gets the rest? Just about everybody. "The central thing is that the whole economy was based on growth," says Caltech Environmentalist Lester Lee, "and there was almost a religious conviction that growth and per capita energy use go together. That was a hard assumption to challenge." Paul Ehrlich agrees: "Our whole economic system is set up to maximize profits and put the emphasis on more production rather than on less usage...
...proceedings, as it were, he is simply able to get off his perch and momentarily walk away from the problem, which is always anchored conveniently on the "steps of life." Except for the brief appearance of the Boy, Littlechap is the only male member of the cast, and Susan Ehrlich's costumes further enrich this aspect of his constant solitude...
...SUSAN EHRLICH'S Beatrice is the paradox that makes it so hard for me to pass judgement on this production. In one way, she is outstanding, in another, she is terrible. She creates a Beatrice who is a wonderfully consistent, three dimensional person--an all too rare accomplishment for an amateur. But, tragically, her Beatrice is not the person Zindel wrote, and this throws the production off balance. She is too low-key, too gently humorous. She doesn't bite or sting, and doesn't build up the bitterness that brings her to cry at the end of the play...