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![]() ![]() And That's the Way It Is Sam Aurelius Milam III
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An Excerpt from See It Now A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy Edward R. Murrow, Tuesday, March 9, 1954 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Letters to the Editor
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Dear Sam,
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of Adelanto, California ![]() Greetings to you in solidarity. ![]() ![]() ![]() —Ramon D. Hontiveros
P-34034 ![]() Stray Thoughts Sam Aurelius Milam III • ![]() • ![]() ![]() ![]() The History Trail Followed by Sam Aurelius Milam III ![]() 1950 — But you do know that in the greatest wars the Earth ever had there were always more people after the war than before, no matter how many were killed. Life is not merely persistent ... life is explosive. The basic theorem of population mathematics to which there has never been found an exception is that population increases always, not merely up to extent of the food supply, but beyond it, to the minimum diet that will sustain life — the ragged edge of starvation. —from Farmer in the Sky
by Robert A. Heinlein ![]() 1965 — Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. —from Dune
by Frank Herbert ![]() 1969, March — I can understand the impatience of youth and the world is in a sad state so you want to do things, however, there are too many people already so don't be in too much of a hurry to increase the population. I am very concerned about the future welfare of the young people now growing up. I try to never predict because if I'm right, no one remembers it, and if I'm wrong, no one ever forgets it. If the present trend does not reverse very soon, I can see only cannibalism as the final conclusion. —from a personal letter
by Sam Aurelius Milam, Jr. ![]() 1969, May — I do not wish to seem overly dramatic, but I can only conclude from the information that is available to me as Secretary-General that the members of the United Nations have perhaps ten years left in which to subordinate their ancient quarrels and launch a global partnership to curb the arms race, to improve the human environment, to defuse the population explosion and to supply the required momentum to development efforts. If such a global partnership is not forged within the next decade, then I very much fear that the problems I have mentioned will have reached such staggering proportions that they will be beyond our capacity to control. —U Thant
Secretary General of the United Nations ![]() 1971 1. ![]() 2. ![]() 3. ![]() 4. ![]() —from The Closing Circle
by Barry Commoner ![]() 2015
![]() 2018 ... the world population ... was estimated to have reached 7.6 billion as of March 2018.
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Acknowledgments ![]() — editor
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— Sam Aurelius Milam III, editor
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