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.. ! - , .' SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT 0 Sociologists and ccologists generally seem to hold that thc two g r e a t problems facing civilization, w m c l y overpopulation and environmental pollution, dcvclop hand-in-hand. Scientists believe that if we. are to survive, as a world, .and add to the qualitativc dimension of human lifc, both problems m u s t bc addrcsscd, and cxpeditiqusly. . Birth controls, both p t e - and post-conceptional, have been effectivc in some places but still r e m a i n a probkcnr from a tcchnological as well a s an ethical moralistic point of bjcw. Although thc industrializcd world is now showing somc slowdown in thc birth r a t e due to improved scientific contraceptivr technique and changing laws and m o r a l values regarding aboriion, the so- called underdeveloped world (the a g r a r i a n economies) has not yct touched the problcm, and will be unable to without an outside dtrrs cx tnachina and a n evolving interpretation of morality arid religious ethics. natural ordcr. The first is the v e r y obvions s p c c t r e (if faminc and hunger, which scientists f r c l they can partially control tlirouah existing capabilities (grcatly increased protein production. g r c a t c r c r o p yield, desalinization, c t c . ) for s e v e r a l dccadcs a t least.. The second is environmental pollution. Overpopulation thcn, that implies a quantitativc. r a t h e r than . a qualitative human cxpcricnce, prortwtcs two hurtlcns on thc The pollution of natrire is a tieer of a different stripe. T h e consensus, among all who profess to know tlrc forces o f nalurc, is that mankind doesn't havc the time luxury in t l w pollulic~n a r c n a . Somcthing m u s t be started and soon beforc a return 1.0 rclativc purity of thc a i r , e a r t h , and w a t c r s is irretrievablc. T h e bclicvcd immin- cncc o f thc ecological pollution problem dictalc!s thct grcat probaliility that tlic rcvolutiona'ry wave of the 1770's m a y well bc A coalition to ovv r(wrnc the. cnvi rr~nnir~ntal prc)blcins faccrl I)y all. atid tccliiiology, fticlcrl b y public arrviisal and thc rr\a.ssivc inLrc)diir-- tion of mon:y, and o i l c r l b y tho CII>OW g r c a s c anrl Z ~ A I o f IIIC pi-c!scnt clay aetivisl coulcl rcaso11al)ly lit! c!xpvctc*rl I o F ~ I - V C a s f . h c * stiriiirtiis I cadi n g tc 1 i 11 c r c as cd i n tc r na t io n a 1 t i rid e r s tantl i n fi and c no pc r a I io ta , as well as, o n the nation51 Icvel, to a transcending of tire conflict of gencrations. 8 Slic.lr sc icincc. * e - /:%* - ". -