Word: malthusian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a classic Malthusian case of exponential growth against a finite source," explained Schlesinger. "On the demand side, we have the additional problem that increasingly our energy system generates waste, a high degree of inefficiency. On the supply side of the problem, we have the additional embarrassment that we have become unduly dependent on foreign sources. Some other nations also are highly dependent on foreign sources, but it is a special problem for the great stabilizing power of the West, which requires a high degree of economic and political invulnerability...
...London Economist points out that "if the arable land of our planet were cultivated as efficiently as farms in Holland, the planet could feed 67 billion people." Clearly, in the words of Edgar Owens, of the Agency for International Development, "the world is not yet confronted with the Malthusian apocalypse...
Isolation, responsibility and success are recurring subjects in her songs, many of which inductively focus on a part of society. Big Yellow Taxi's Malthusian look at the environment and Free Man in Paris' harried-executive portrait lead to larger conclusions about basic motives and drives...
...world "is facing the moment of truth from Malthusian pressures," Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, said last night...
...delegates attending the World Food Conference have little time to lose. With starvation threatening the planet's poorest inhabitants, nearly unparalleled acts of international cooperation are needed to prevent the Malthusian nightmare from becoming a reality. Scientific and technological means exist to feed all the hungry; but the money and the will may not. Precedents are not encouraging. This year three much ballyhooed international gatherings-the U.N. special session on raw materials, the Conference on the Law of the Seas held in Caracas and the World Population Conference in Bucharest-degenerated into forums for political posturing and adjourned without...