1956s.17-ms-25

no matter how much suffering there is
elsewhere in the world or what the needs
of future generations will be; people who
think that they themselves will be worse off
if there is any change in the economic
and social system.

The problems facing the world are
immense, and terrifying — the threat of
world-wide devastation in an atomic
war, the destruction of civilization,
the deterioration of mankind through
radiation damage to germ plasm;
later, the exhaustion of natural
resources (copper, lead, zinc, tin
in 50 years, oil in perhaps 100 years,
unless there is a policy of conser-
vation); the deaths by starvation
when the world's population becomes
too great.