Word: mathers
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...decades, unless we return to savagery, the world demand for many non-renewable resources will be twice or thrice that of today," said Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, in a broadcast given on Saturday afternoon sponsored by the Guardian...
Professor Mather saw no cause for alarm in this statement, for substitutes are being continually found to supplant these resources. We are also trying to use less of our mineral resources, and more of our permanent natural resources, such as wind and water power...
Other programs already arranged include Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, on "The War Room Question." January 27; Philip W. Ireland, instructor in Government, on "New Potentialities in the Balkans," February 10; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, and Rolland F. Shafue '40, of the Guardian, on "A Physical Basis for New Society," February 17; and Wassily W. Leontieff, assistant professor of Economics, February...
Future. Professor Kirtley Fletcher Mather, Harvard geologist, regards the future of man on earth with a good deal of complacency. He expects the world's climate five or ten million years hence to be more benign than it is now (a cyclic recurrence of past benign climates), and he looks for no astronomical catastrophe to wipe the planet out of existence. It is true, he observed last week, that practically none of the placental mammals (of which man is one) has maintained itself as a species for more than two or three million years, and the average must...
...sometimes suggested," said Dr. Mather, "that because man has specialized in brains, brains may cause his downfall, just as presumably the overspecialization in external armament contributed to the downfall of certain herbivorous dinosaurs. That argument by analogy is ... heavily punctuated with fallacies. There is as yet no evidence that mankind is weighted down with a superabundance of intelligence...