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• The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have…
• A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing…
• There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring…
• A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might…
• In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other…
• The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating…
• The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional…
• Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too…
• Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and…
• If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by…
• A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.
• Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs),…

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