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...glance into the dark corners of the universe, saw the force that drove the furnace of the stars, and then he brought that force to earth. After four years of refining, J. Robert Oppenheimer unleashed a force that exploded with a brilliance and brutality never before seen on this planet. His genius, that inquisitive flicker in his eyes, found expression in an explosion that could be seen from the rest of the planets in the solar system...
...Global 2000 Report to the President, issued last summer, was trumpeted by its sponsors as the most detailed and authoritative review yet of the planet's population, natural resources and environmental problems. Three years in the making, the 800-page report pulled together statistics and analyses from 13 Government agencies, ranging from the Department of Agriculture to the Central Intelligence Agency. The study painted a starkly pessimistic view of the world two decades from now. Its grim conclusion: "If present trends continue, the world in 2000 will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically, and more vulnerable...
Caldicott urged the audience to use the democratic process and accept responsibility for preserving the "safety of the planet...
...crypto-futuristic city where you can rise 72 stories in an outdoor glass elevator and drink martinis in a revolving bar and look down on people as they smash their automobiles headlong into one another in front of the largest Coca Cola plant on the face of the planet. Robert E. Lee and the rest of the "noble" ones are gone. It is nothing like that...
...adds. The primary subject is once again the catastrophe that overtakes Shikasta (earth). The observer this time is a woman named Ambien II, a virtually immortal emissary from Sirius. She was in on the original cultivation of Rohanda-Shikasta. She retains a proprietary interest in the ailing planet, and visits it every eon or so. In addition to the unfolding spectacle of human savagery, she sees some spectacular sights. She happens to be flying over in a small bubble of a spaceship when the planet suddenly tips over from its upright axis. Her description of this cataclysm, all grinding continents...