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Includes bibliographical references.

The four ages of man / William Butler Yeats -- Human nature / Ralph A. Lewin -- The biological nature of man / George Gaylord Simpson -- Genesis 1:26 -- The historical roots of our ecologic crisis / Lynn White, Jr. -- The attitude lag / Eugene P. Odum -- Man and the air / LaMont C. Cole -- Evolution of the earth's atmosphere / S.I. Rasool -- The atmospheres of Mars and Venus / Von R. Eshleman -- Perhaps pollution ruined Venus / Jeffrey D. Alderman -- Winds, pollution, and the wilderness / Lester Machta -- Automobile engines : pollution and power / Israel Katz -- The car : an electric challenge / Time magazine -- Steam automobiles : advocates seek government support for research / Andrew Jamison -- Methanol : a new fuel / Ronald G. Minet -- Diminishing the role of sulfur oxides in air pollution / Philip H. Abelson -- Air quality act of 1967 / Senate Report -- Pollution : the wake of the Torrey Canyon / John Walsh -- Oil in the ecosystem / Robert W. Holcomb -- Oil spills, an old story / S.W.A. Gunn -- Oil pollution threat in Alaska / The Wilderness Report -- Thermal pollution / LaMont C. Cole -- Thermal addition : one step from thermal pollution / Sharon Friedman -- Executive order on thermal pollution / Lyndon B. Johnson -- The effects of pesticides / William A. Niering -- Battle of Coral Sea / Newsweek magazine -- Monitoring pesticide pollution / Philip A. Butler -- Pesticide pollution control / H. Page Nicholson -- Fewer pesticides, more control / Robert Van den Bosch -- Japanese view on defoliation / Yosiaki Ito -- Gardening without DDT / Time magazine -- Lake Tahoe and soil pollution / David E. Elrick -- Lake Tahoe : measured for pollution / Edward S. Deevey, Jr. -- AEC scientists push project to eliminate all wastes / Neal Stanford -- Shock at sea / Time magazine -- Radioiodine fallout over the midwest in May / Lester Machta -- Nerve gas : Dugway accident linked to Utah sheep kill ; Academy changes army gas dump plan / Philip M. Boffey -- The wail of Kashmir / Lee Merriman Talbot -- Deserts on the march / Paul B. Sears -- Encroachment of the present / Kenneth S. Norris -- A letter from the Arctic / Sam Wright -- National parks : traffic jams turn attention to roads / Luther J. Carter -- We must earn again for ourselves what we have inherited / Garrett Hardin -- Animals from the Amazon Basin / Paul Gregory Heltne -- Whales : decline continues despite limitations on catch / John Walsh -- The end of whale oil soap / Ralph Taylor -- The tortoise and the jet / Dael Wolfle -- Loss of wild genetic stocks / Kenneth S. Norris -- Alluvial-flat redwoods : impact of flood control / Bestor Robinson, Edward C. Stone and Richard B. Vasey -- Forest fires : suppression policy has its ecological drawbacks / Mark Oberle -- Flyspeck on Glacier Peak / Amedee A. Peugnet -- Eco-catastrophe! / Paul R. Ehrlich -- Four conflicts in conservation / Charles A. Dambach -- Guidelines for action in saving the environment / Charles H.W. Foster -- The population crisis is here now / Walter E. Howard -- How to save the ship / Paul R. Ehrlich -- The social consequences of population growth / Benjamin Viel -- Birth control and economic development / Stephen Enke -- Population policy : will current programs succeed? / Kingsley Davis -- Soviet population theory / Dael Wolfle -- Do Roman Catholic countries have the highest birth rates? / Population Reference Bureau, Inc. -- Population control, sterilization and ignorance / Thomas Eisner, Ari van Tienhoven, Frank Rosenblatt -- History of abortion / James R. Newman -- Those smelly Roman lamps / Ashley Montagu, Kiffin A. Rockwell -- Abortion, or compulsory pregnancy? ; Coping with contraceptive failure / Garrett Hardin -- The explosive desire for children / Time magazine -- The tragedy of the commons / Garrett Hardin -- The tragedy of the commons, revisited / Beryl L. Crowse -- An Indian method of hunting buffalo / Meriwether Lewis -- Food production in prehistoric Europe / H.T. Waterbolk -- The Tehuacan story / Robert Claiborne -- Japan : a crowded nation wants to boost its birthrate / Philip M. Boffey -- On the balance : Revelation 6:5, 6 -- The locomotive and the mudslide / William and Paul Paddock -- The time for rhetoric is over / Lyndon B. Johnson -- The starving as a race apart / James Bonner -- The dual challenge of health and hunger, a global crisis / Georg A. Borgstrom -- Agricultural production in the developing countries / G.F. Sprague -- Can we prepare for famine? / E. James Archer -- Paying the piper / Paul R. Ehrlich -- Starvation patterns / Jean Mayer -- Malnutrition, learning, and behavior / Philip H. Abelson -- What will we do? / James Bonner -- What have we done? / United States Senate concurrent resolution -- Dry lands and desalted water / Gale Young -- Water importation into arid lands / Jay M. Bagley -- The use of arid lands / Dael Wolfle -- Dams and wild rivers : looking beyond the pork barrel / Luther J. Carter -- Aquatic weeds / L.G. Holm, L.W. Weldon and R.D. Blackburn -- Think big / Bruce Stewart -- The myth of fertility dooms development plans / Darryl G. Cole -- Will the Amazon basin become a desert? / William E. Moran, Jr. -- Human food from ocean and land / K.O. Emery and C.O'D. Iselin -- Milk production of cows on protein-free food / Artturi I. Virtanen -- Religion and energy flow / Howard T. Odum.

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