The Challenge of Man's Future
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The Spectre Of Uncontrolled Breeding
The full impact of coal-massified societies on human consciousness is caught inadvertently in Cal Tech nuclear scientist Harrison Brown’s The Challenge of Man’s Future (1954), a book pronounced "great" by fellow Nobel Prize–winning geneticist Hermann Müller. Brown examines carefully the probability that the human carrying capacity of the planet is between 50 and 200 billion people, before summarizing the reasons this fact is best kept secret:
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if [humanity] had its way, it would not rest content until the earth is covered completely and to a considerable depth with a writhing mass of human beings, much as a dead cow is covered with a pulsating mass of maggots. (p. 235)
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The destiny of humanity depends upon our decisions and upon our actions. (p. 280)
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world authority with jurisdiction over population (p. 274)
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thoughts and actions are ever more strongly limited (p. 233)
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[we must create a world] where social organization has become all pervasive, complex, and inflexible, and where the state completely dominates the actions of the individual. (p. 233)