[MCN] J K Galbraith : “Conservationists are unquestionably useful people," but ...

[Lance Olsen]

“Conservationists are unquestionably useful people. And among the many useful services that they have rendered has been that of dramatizing the vast appetite the United States has developed for materials of all kinds.”

“But what of the appetite itself? Surely this is the ultimate source of the problem. If it continues its geometric course, will it not one day have to be restrained? Yet in the literature of the resource problem this is the forbidden question. Over it hangs a nearly total silence.”

John K. Galbraith. “How much should a country consume?”

In Jarrett, Henry (editor), Perspectives on Conservation.

John Hopkins Press. 1958    
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“Just remember, this is not your grandfather's atmosphere. Things are different now, and will get even more-so in the coming years   …  "

http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2015/12/02/the-coming-winter-part-two-the-elephant-in-the-room/

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