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Rodale, Robert – Futurist, 1983
Conventional farming methods attempt to dominate nature. This approach is leading farmers toward self-destruction. If farmers use regenerative agriculture, farming would change from a battle against nature into the art of encouraging nature to release the most benefits for human use with the least possible effort. (AM)
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Agricultural Trends, Agronomy, Depleted Resources
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Wellert, Robert B. – Futurist, 1982
An examination of the moral obligation of the present generation to future generations must take into consideration population, conservation, and genetic and environmental issues. Five presuppositions about the nature of humanity in the future are discussed. (AM)
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Depleted Resources, Futures (of Society), Moral Values
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Deudney, Daniel – Futurist, 1982
Large-scale space industrialization is not a viable solution to the population, energy, and resource problems of earth. The expense and technological difficulties involved in the development and maintenance of space manufacturing facilities, space colonies, and large-scale satellites for solar power are discussed. (AM)
Descriptors: Depleted Resources, Economic Factors, Energy, Futures (of Society)
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Grant, Lindsey – Futurist, 1983
Julian Simon and Herman Kahn argue that population growth is good, not bad; they ignore or dismiss critical environmental issues. Fallacies in their arguments about predicting the future from the past, climate change, population growth, air quality, resource expansion, the finite earth, and technological growth are examined. (SR)
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Climate, Depleted Resources, Futures (of Society)