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Blueprint
for
Survival
S
OMETIMES che mosc shockingly
IMPORTANT news goes unno–
ticed, or buried back on page 17
of your newspaper. Revolurionary
manifesros, such as Karl Marx's
Com–
munist Manifesto,
later
ro
upser the
world balance, emerge from obscuriry
in confused circumscances.
Did you know
~hat
Abraham Lin–
coln's "Gerrysburg Address" was nor
deemed worthy of prinring by mosr
newspapers? Only one paper prinred
ir and chus saved it for posterity.
But now comes a real brain-crun–
cher.
Ir
is rhe recenr unveiling of a
manifesro for mankind called
Blue–
print for Survival.
Thiny-three disrin–
guished scienrisrs signed cheir support
of ir.
Firsr published by a magazine
called che
Ecologist,
only che London
Times
gave ir front-page space. Ir re–
vealed sorne sraggering FACTS. Ir gave
an analysis of rhe problems now fac–
ing mankind - and, whar is almost
shockingly unprecedenred, ir made
recommendarions for solurions, and
for saving humanity alive on rhis
earth. One reader commenred afrer
reading ir rhat nothing seems quite
rhe same any more.
Yer che cen eral faces are quite
simple. This has been an INDUSTRIAL
world only for che past
150
ro 175
years. In thar short time, " Industrial
Man" has burgled che world of irs
RA
w
MATERIAL$. Tlús has elevaced
man, in che affiuenr counrries, to a
much higher standard of living. Ar
che same time popularion is increas-
PLAIN TRUTH
Jonuory
1973
ing in an acceleraring spiral! Now
rhere are abour
3,500
million of us -
only a minority of which enjoy rhe
higher indusrrialized living scandards.
Bur here's che shocker. In anorher
hundred years MOST of the imporcant
raw materials
wilt have been used tJp
-
gone.'
That includes
oii,
copper, rin,
gold, silver, zinc, mcrcury, lead, and
platinum.
And rhese
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disringuished scien–
risrs DO NOT THINK THE INGENUITY
OF SCIENCE WILL
BE
ABLE TO PRo–
DUCE SUBSTTTUTES! At thc end of that
100
years, rhey estimare the world's
population will have increased from
3
lt2
billion ro
10
or
15
billion!
But che real DANGER ro rhe sur–
viva! of human life comes rhrough
faces revealed by chis comparatively
new science of ecology. And Am–
bassador College has been a pioneer
in arousing public consciousness ro
the dangers pointed our by ecology.
It was che study of ecological faces
that led to chis "blueprinr." A funda–
mental concept of ecology is that
man is a biological being. Any idea
that man is independenr, or can livc
indepcndent of che natural world, is a
delusion.
Through technology, in a desire ro
FORCE earth's soil tO YIELD
more
AND
more
to sarisfy man's greed, che natu–
ral life cyde of che soil has been up–
ser. Man is rampering with nacure!
His pcscicides, pollucion, and artificial
fertilizers have upsec nature's
balance.
The Manifesto warns chat if we .
"push things roo far, if, for insrance,
che insecticides we use ro replace the
self-regulating conrrols thar normally
ensure che srabiliry ot insecr popu–
larions were ro desrroy
nitrogen-fixing
bacteria, or pollenaring inseccs, all rhe
money and all che rechnology in rhe
WORLD would not suffice ro replace
rhem, and thereby ro prevent life pro–
ccsscs from grinding
co
a hale. Yer
chis subsci tution is implicic in che aim
of industrial society ....
"Imagine whar ir will be like when
water supplies havc been exhausred
... and when che natural mechanisms
providing us wich che air we brearhe
have been so complerely disrupced
rhat vasc inscallarions are needed ro
pump oxygen inro che atrnosphere,
and filrer out che noxious
g~s
emir–
red by our industrial insrallarions.
"Clearl y under such conditions, che
slighrest technical hitch or industrial
dispute, or shorrage of sorne key re–
source, mighr be sufficient ro deprive
us of such basic necessirics of !ife as
water, food, and air - and bring life
TO
A
HALT" - rhat is, erase all
human life from chis earth.
But will chis warning
be
heeded?
Has mankind
ever
heeded warn–
ings?
And whar are che recommenda–
rions of chis blueprint for solurions?
These, roo, are drasric and shock–
ing. Here is a little of ir:
"Economic growth,
che cure-al! for
social problems, is a shibbolerh. Brit–
ain, and all orher societies, should ac–
cively seek not just ro srabilize, buc ro
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