In this issue Vol. 7 No. 7 Aug/Sept. 1977

THE FUTURE OF AMERICA

Edward Goldsmith & John Milton FOREWORD

INTRODUCTORY

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John Bakeless Eugene Odum

David Pimentel Thomas 3. Starr Garrett Hardin

Preston Cloud Wilson Clark Georg Borgstrom Kenneth Watt

George Armelagos 8c Phillip S. Katz

Our Land as it was Ecology: The Commonscnse Approach

POPULATION, CLIMATE AND FOOD

247 250

America's Agricultural Future The Role of Climate in American Agriculture Population and Immigration — Compassion or Responsibility? 254 262 268 RESOURCES AND ENERGY

Mineral Resources and National Destiny Renewable Energy Sources and a Conservation Economy Water Resources for America's Future Resource Costs and the Economic Future

HEALTH

273 283 294 298

Technology Health and Disease in America

THE AMERICAN ALTERNATIVE Reorganising Society to Satisfy Ecological Exigencies

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Sam Love Royce LaNier David Morris John Milton

Redividing North America The Rebirth of the North American City Neighborhood Power Living the American Alternative

318 320 324 332

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