Word: growths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much out of optimism as out of fear that Americans refuse to deal with the energy crisis [Nov. 21]. We are just not willing to acknowledge scarcity. The frontier is gone. Abundance and economic growth do not reflect current realities. Let us face those realities, rather than continue an illusion...
...southern California's coastline is a jagged scar of freeways and factories that bar the way to the sea. Washington, at least, has caught a glimpse of the future and is not at all sure that it works. So has neighboring Oregon, which has decided to throttle back on growth and has developed a master plan requiring its 276 local governments to work out their own schemes, which must conform with state guidelines...
Then the hype was on. One day a year of Christmas was not enough for the growth-minded executives in the upper echelons of The Santa Corporation. As Amalgamated Widget, they had used the company's formidable promotional muscle to expand July Fourth Weekend into July Fourth Week in order to boost the firm's Patriotism and Pyrotechnics Division. As The Santa Corporation, they now began taking out five-minute television spots and full-age ads in major daily newspapers to, as their ad men put it, "make that Christmas spirit last and last and last...
Only some of the spending actually has worked to improve the quality of health care. The growth of private and public insurance coverage, for example, has brought access to many who previously did not have it; advances in technology that have increased the power of medicine to prolong and enhance life have required additional funds; health care has taken on new assignments, like mental health, drug abuse and alcohol abuse. And the pay of health care workers has finally been brought up to the level of other industries...
Harris views cultural history as the outcome of the growth of populations until their demands exceed available resources which encourages ever greater intensification of production. Inevitably, as ecologists like Barry Commoner have warned loudly for the last decade, this leads to depletion of the environment. For a culture to survive, it must then evolve technologically and begin all over again. As a rule it is rare to encounter blatantly obvious "logic" such as his declaration that "similar variable under similar conditions tend to give rise to similar consequences." Indeed Harris while avowedly a cultural determinist covers himself from sniper-fire...