In 1958 he felt that the prophecies he made twenty-seven years earlier were coming true faster than he expected. ... In the chapter entitled "Quantity, Quality, Morality" of Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley calls mass starvation as a means of preserving the earth the "horns of an ethical dilemma", and says that it will take all mankind's intelligence and good will to solve the problem (13). ... By 1950 these advances were ready for use and greatly increased world food production. ... Carl Sagan's comment above was written in 1974 when food output was still on the upswing....

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To begin with, one must realize that the United States is one of the most wealthy and powerful nations on the earth. The story behind how we got to be this prosperous and dominant nation may be best defined by Carl F. Worden when he said: In the most perfect scenario, and one that the United States of America just happened to follow, this nation was established on a continent that was blessed with magnificent amounts of raw materials, like wood and metals, and an agricultural breadbasket that could produce far more food than the domestic population could possibly eat. ... Yet de...

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