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...region's six nations, therefore, may be confronting a bleak Malthusian future in which the most basic needs of their populations will fatally outstrip the productive potential of the land. A U.S. intelligence analyst speculates, "We don't know if the Sahel countries will even be here in ten years...
...year deal to transport, in liquid form, some 2 billion cu. ft. of natural gas daily -about three times as much as all of New England now uses every 24 hours. U.S. demand for imported natural gas is expected to skyrocket in the near future, since projected needs far outstrip the available supply at home. Final agreement on the deal may be some time off; it undoubtedly depends on a settlement of broad trade questions between the U.S. and Russia, including Moscow's demand for most-favored-nation status. But Freeman is optimistic about the eventual outcome. Says...
...still huge, undiscovered reserves of natural resources, say, under the oceans. Testing that possibility, Meadows' computer shows that industrialization will accelerate-and the resulting runaway pollution will overwhelm the biosphere. Might not new technological devices control pollution? Sure, says the computer, but then population would soar and outstrip the ability of land to produce food. Every advance in technology consumes scarce natural resources, throws off more pollutants and often has unwanted social side effects, like creating huge and unmanageable unemployment. What if pollution was abated, the birthrate halved and food production doubled? The readouts are no less glum. There...
Died. Dr. Brock Chisholm, 74, controversial Canadian psychiatrist who from 1948 to 1953 served as director general of the World Health Organization; of pneumonia; in Victoria, B.C. Chisholm was one of the first to warn that world population growth could eventually outstrip food supplies unless there was global family planning. Best known for his attacks on what he regarded as society's sillier ideas, he stirred a furor by arguing that any child encouraged to believe in Santa Claus has his ability to think permanently injured. On superstition: "There is hardly a hotel in New York that...
...million, somewhat larger than either the U.S. or the Soviet Union. Its gross national product will be an estimated $650 billion v. $932 billion for the U.S. and as much as $600 billion for Russia. The Market will be the world's largest steel producer, and it will outstrip even the U.S. in auto production...