Word: planet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many of us have waited so long for you to call public attention to man's "dedication to infinite growth on a finite planet." The heart of the problem is unchecked population growth...
...Woman, Fowles (1 last week) 2. The Godfather, Puzo (2) 3. Travels with My Aunt, Greene (5) 4. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin (3) 5. The Inheritors, Robbins (6) 6. The House on the Strand, du Maurier (4) 7. Mr. Sammler's Planet, Bellow (9) 8. Love Story, Segal 9. The Seven Minutes, Wallace (8) 10. Fire from Heaven, Renault...
...environment [Feb. 2] will carry the message to millions who have not yet been reached by such clarion criers of alarm as Ecologists Cole, Commoner, Odum, Ehrlich and Watt. The tragedy is that a generation ago William Vogt (The Road to Survival) and Fairfield Osborn (Our Plundered Planet) and two generations ago John...
...from youthful rebels but also from the supposedly silent majority Middle Americans, to say nothing of scientists and politicians. Urbanologists fret about cities swollen to dinosaur dimensions that defy efficient management and create immense social costs through crime, congestion and drug addiction. Ecologists raise the specter 'in a planet made uninhabitable by the pressures of a rising population. Some environmentalists go so far as to advocate a no-growth society; they call upon rich nations to welcome declines in their gross national products...
...contrary, the Bible states explicitly that man was placed here as the dominant species with the responsibility to manage the planet Earth and accountable to God for his stewardship. Adam's rebellion against and alienation from God resulted in terrible mismanagement of the generous commission. In the last book of the Bible there is a prophecy of the inevitable end. God's indictment is tersely summed up in the words, "and destroy them that destroy the earth...