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What will come of the world's population explosion? Optimists talk of a limit brought about by voluntary birth control. Pessimists gloom about widespread starvation, plague, or the thinning effect of nuclear war. In the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dr. Hudson Hoagland of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology suggests a third possibility. Nature, he says, has its own subtle systems for choking off excessive breeding...
Gland Trouble. When animals are overcrowded, says Hoagland, their increase often slows down even when they have plenty of food. Horrible things happen among jammed-up flour beetles. Females destroy their eggs; they turn cannibalistic and eat one another. Males lose interest in females, and though plenty of flour is left for food, the beetle population reaches a statistical plateau...
...Hoagland is not prepared to predict flatly that any of these unhappy effects will appear among the earth's human population as its density increases. But he makes some dark suggestions. Even though most inmates of crowded human slums escape to pleasanter places from time to time, he says, many slums show a social pathology (crime, delinquency, street gangs, psychotic behavior) as did the pens of crowded rats. In concentration camps, where no respite from crowding was possible, humans developed adrenal stress. In the future, Hoagland fears, if crowding gets out of hand, nature may strike with horrible...
...drag. His counterpart Ann Timmons (Joanna Vogel) coldly pursues men. She snatches up innocent victims like Achilles, inflames them and casts them off. Ann is supposed to be bitchy, but Miss Vogel is too callous to make me believe she could arouse anyone's lust. Peter Gaylord (Peter Hoagland) loves Ann Timmons and wants to take her away from the filth of Cambridge to Cape Cod, where he teaches high school. He stands for the home truths: love over lust, sincerity in place of affectation. But again I don't believe a real Ann Timmons would ever sit with...
...know a nine-year-old mono patient who kissed only her horse. Would Colonel Hoagland also condemn kissing horses...