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...crisis sometime during 1970-1985 because of overpopulation. But despite many famines and much suffering in the last decade, Paul Ehrlich has thus far been wrong, and few economists expect such a crisis in the next decade. His Malthusian expectations of too little food for too many people are valid; population growth--without agricultural innovations would ultimately outstrip food supply. Maybe the world squeaked by because Ehrlich's prophecies helped warn nations to limit their ranks; and maybe the world's response to Ehrlich's dire forebodings improved conditions--but probably not. On the whole his book has been accepted...
This year Ehrlich is at it again. In Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species, he argues that the destruction of species will spell disaster for mankind. Yet, though he again brings forth valid and enlightening points, Armageddon still doesn't seem near. Man may cause the death of other species, but the human race's sense of self-preservation will probably stop it from committing mass suicide...
...outrage at the thought of any reductions in planned defense spending. Texas Republican John Tower, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, fumed that the Pentagon will have "less in the way of defense capability than even Jimmy Carter projected." That was clearly not true, but other legislators voiced valid worries about how the defense cutback would mesh with Reagan's foreign policy. Said Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine: "You can't tell the Soviets you will outspend them in an arms race if they won't negotiate, then propose defense reductions and still believe Moscow...
...DEPTH--and the myriad valid justifications--suggests that surmounting the bitterness will be hard, much harder than stretching out some mythical, folksinger hand of brotherhood, much harder than pinning a green ribbon on the lapel, much harder than announcing that you will begin to consider Blacks for faculty positions--even with the best intentions. "We are, by reason of the lives we have led, a suspicious people. We are the children of suspicious people, as were our grandparents and their grandparents. This has been so with us even back to those people most of call foreparents. Now, if we think...
...another 6-3 ruling, the Justices found that Montana's 30% tax on coal, the highest such levy in the nation, was not an unacceptable burden on interstate commerce, even though most of it is shipped out of the state, and therefore was valid. After the decision, residents of energy-poor regions said they would urge Congress to establish a ceiling for such taxes...