Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vogt's book Road to Survival is probably the most inaccurate and misleading article that TIME has ever published. The implication that "real scientists" do not agree with Vogt's main thesis is far from the truth. It is true that Vogt has exaggerated the dangers of soil erosion, but he has underestimated the difficulties in the adequate control of population growth and the control of "moral erosion...
Congratulations on an excellent expose ol the fallacies in the Neo-Malthusian school of economists' argument in reference to population and food supply [TIME, Nov. 8] Those chappies are long on theory and dialectic, short on soil science...
...Soil mining & erosion are still causing inestimable damage, but not so much as before...
...TIME'S smug and complacent dismissal of William Vogt's ideas on world population and world food supply, there were numerous references to "the real soil scientists" who assured TIME that everything will be O.K.-the technologists will find a way to feed everybody . . . That crops can be grown on intensively cultured and fertilized areas of poor soil is not news . . . Where is the unlimited supply of fertilizer coming from-particularly the phosphates...
...scarce materials; stronger rent controls; strong federal support of farm prices; ratification of an agreement which would guarantee U.S. farmers an export market of 185 million bushels of wheat a year for the next five years; government construction of more grain bins; crop insurance: a broad program of soil conservation, rural electrification, reclamation; development of more TVAs...