Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past. This year the minority proposed to break with the precedent; by treating the session as a new body, new rules would have to be drafted. Thereby the minority hoped to rewrite Rule 22, which keeps debate unlimited unless 64 members ask for cloture (i.e., a time limit on debate...
Although, as with Leonardo, there is no limit to Bucky's interests, and no domain he cannot think himself into or out of, many of his most energetic ideas center in how best to shelter the human race. A house is an energetic environment valve because man, the 28-jointed, etc., biped, creates or modifies his environment by the energy he brings to it; it is the house's function to sluice the biped's energy into its appropriate social, sexual, digestive or somnolent modes. In the Fuller terminology, an automobile is a migratory glassed-in front...
...Darwin's view, the human molecules have one fundamental property that dominates all others: they tend to increase their numbers up to the absolute limit of their food supply. This is the familiar thesis of Thomas Malthus, a senior contemporary of Grandfather Darwin whose gloomy predictions of starvation have haunted mankind for 150 years...
...would take drastic action by a strong world government, Darwin says, to limit the earth's population, and no strong world government is likely to last for more than a few centuries. As soon as it weakens even slightly, rebellious races or creeds will use the wombs of their women as weapons of social aggression...
...Ages. But the philoprogenitive pressure of its sociological molecules will undo it in the end. No matter what science, government and religion try to do about population, humans will increase like fruit flies in a geneticist's breeding bottle. Stability will come only when starvation sets an impassable limit...