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...Scientific Revolution." In the lean years after World War II, a new generation of Malthusians sprouted. Between 1938 and 1946, world food production declined by 5%, whereas the population increased by 10%, and it was upon these figures that William Vogt (Road to Survival, TIME, Nov. 8, 1948) and Fairfield Osborn (Our Plundered Planet) based predictions of mass starvation. Last week, however, the world learned that the neo-Malthusians were wrong: mankind, more numerous than ever before, had more to eat than ever before.* The rate of increase of the production of food now exceeds the rate of increase...
...WILLIAM VOGT...
...Vogt is a specialist in the effect of Western influences on American Indian cultures in the United States. He has also served as co-ordinator of the "Comparative Study of Values in Five Cultures," a program in which a team of University scientists has analyzed Indian, Spanish-American, and English-speaking communities in the Southwest...
...Vogt is the author of "Homestead," "Navajo Veterans: A Study in Changing Values," co-author of "Navajo Means People," and is associate editor of The American Indian magazine and The Journal of American Folklore...
...Navaho case," Kluckhohn and Vogt believe, "is not unlike many of the problems in Southeast Asia or Africa." The most important thing to be learned from it "is that technical assistance and economic help are not enough." What is needed, they say, is an approach "which sees the problems in their full social and cultural complexity...