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WASHINGTON: By 2025, say researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the world will be incapable of feeding its estimated 8 billion inhabitants. Unless we cut down the birth rate, writes author Don Hinrichsen, there simply won't be enough farm land to go around...
...Sound familiar? Try this: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce sustenence for man." Not Hinrichsen in 1997, but Thomas Robert Malthus in 1798. You might remember dreary Malthusian predictions from social science class ? if so, you'll also recall he was proved wrong. Fast-forward 200 years, and a bunch of researchers are trying to recycle the warning. Has anything changed...
...pessimist to the end, Malthus neglected human ingenuity ? crop rotation and refrigerated steamships got us out of the hole well before his starvation deadline. At least Hinrichsen's doomsaying is more cautious: Technological advances could feed an extra 2 billion mouths, he admits, but would require "decades of effort at the international, national and local levels...
Evelyn K. Galland '68 of Whitman Hall and Brookline, Biochemistry; Mary A. Hinrichsen '68 of Moors Hall and Ames, Iowa, Biochemistry; Judith M. Jacobs '68 of Slater House and Great Neck, N.Y., Classics and allied field; and Ellen R. Nadler '68 of Moors Hall and Elmont, N.Y., Government...
Radcliffe's Phi Beta Kappa chapter last night announced the election of the following members of the Junior Class; Natalie Dosick, Elizabeth Trygstad Fast. Pamela Huntsman-Trout, Jean Campbell, Helen Louise Hinrichsen, and Nina Raizersdorfer. First-term Seniors Charlotte Rappaport and Suzanne Simon were also elected...