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...root of this phenomenon were the dire warnings of ecologists that man's heedless outpouring of noxious wastes is overwhelming the biosphere's ability to cleanse itself. As the year began, the public's foreboding was bolstered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which devoted 40 symposia at its annual meeting to environmental dangers. Later in January, President Nixon stressed the subject in his State of the Union address, which he followed up with a February special message. Soon the press issued almost daily reports on assorted ecological disasters?oil spills, fish kills, nuclear radiation...
Bathtub Grass. Though marijuana law enforcement now costs California alone more than $72 million worth of police and court time each year, Kaplan notes that the busts have not decreased use of the drug. The law has little effect on the unstable and heedless users who are most likely to become serious marijuana abusers or go on to hard drugs. By lumping marijuana with hallucinogens, amphetamines, barbiturates and heroin, in fact, the law encourages young people to distrust warnings about those far more perilous substances. Pot prohibition gives sporadic users the stigma of criminal records and makes young people cynical...
...Kent State dead. Three of the dissenters came away with knife wounds. One confrontation at U.C.L.A. was often something of an absurdist frolic, with students advancing on and retreating from the police?the "blue meanies"?in a sort of Keystone Kops ballet. Police would chase kids frantically past heedless couples smooching on benches. When one shift of police went off duty, the students shouted: "Manatia, pigs!" A cop would smile and wave goodbye...
...tone of your writing is deeply urgent, but the problem itself is appalling. This may be our last chance: either the human population halts its growth voluntarily or we'll experience the horror of a thousand Biafras, all brought on by a heedless population explosion...
California is a blessed state?young, aggressive, progressive. And yet it is rapidly losing many of its best natural qualities through heedless exploitation of its resources. Among its problems: OPEN SPACE. Every year, Greater Los Angeles' growth consumes 70 sq. mi. of open land. Not only is prime farm land taken out of production, but it is also developed