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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…
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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…
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There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring…
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A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might…
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In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other…
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The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating…
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The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional…
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Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too…
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Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and…
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If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by…
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A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.
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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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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year…
— Brooks Stevens
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece…
— Studs Terkel
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.
— Brooks Stevens
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Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created…
— Vincent Canby
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Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
— Aldous Huxley
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Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs),…
— John Holdren
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
— Brooks Stevens
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Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.
— Robert Orben
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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions…
— James Surowiecki
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Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished,…
— Aldous Huxley
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Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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