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GROSS NATIONAL
GARBAGE
100 Pounds Per Person Per
D11y
Federal and
Industrial
1:)
Wa}te
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educators, scientists. The general con–
sensus of all these prognosticators
paints a pretty gloomy picture. The
world scene painted by their frighten–
ingly accurate forward projections of
current trends vividly portrays a world
of total cataclysm !
All point to
this
decade as the
DEC–
ADE OF DECJSION
!
If
we make it through these next
ten years, the consensus is, then we
may
have a chance to restore sorne
semblance of order, of health, of pros–
perity in the world again. But there are
an awfullot of
ifs
in the projections.
IF
the entirety of mankind is not wiped
out by nuclear war. Or germ war. Or
nerve gas war.
lf
we can somehow
double and then triple the production
of food and forestall the deaths of
htm–
dreds of miltions
in massive famines.
If
simple laws of hygiene and medica! sci–
ence can continue to stand as a thin bar–
rier against the overwbelming ignorance
of the great bulk of mankind and the
carelessness of the rest in this tidal
wave of pollution, then we can prevent
vast, worldwide pandemics of diseases
- such as bubonic plague and deatb–
dealing dysentery diseases, Asían super–
Bus, rabies, and hoof-and-mouth disease
in cattle.
All these predictions are made with
sober, yet alarmed shock, by many
Animal
Wastes
Pounds
Source: Bureou of Sol id Wostes Mona:gement
Total "Gross National Garbage" produced each year in the U.S. tops 3.5
billion
tons- or about 100 pounds per person per doy! Only seven of_those
100 pounds are personally generated household waste. The rest
1s
the
"invisible" waste of our affluent - and effluent - economy.
groups of people who begin to see the
handwriting on the wall. Yet tbese
events were
long ago
forecast and put
clown in writing to forewarn
11s
of mas–
sive problems
before
we carne to this
time and finally recognized them in
high gear! But basically, the book
in which those statements were written
clown has been rejected by mankind
as a whole. Most feel
ít
has no practica!,
seríous applicatíon to real, daily life.
Without shockíng too many, may I
simply say that Book is the
Bible.
If
yott
could be carried back
2000
years to the time of Christ - if
yo11
were given the opportunity to write
down, in a form which would remain
permanently available to mankind, a
succinct warning (.in
300
words or less)
of tbe vast problems that present them–
selves to mankind today - would
you
do as well, using simple words which
would have meaning in every age, in
describing
today's world conditions
as
the words of Matthew 24?
Good News
That chapter in your Bible outlines
the major crises which would be today's
seething worldwide problems, prophe-
sied by Jesus Christ as loud alarms that
would signal His return to tbis earth.
Fortunately that prophecy in Mattbew
24 goes
beyond
the dark and hopeless
statements made by sincerely alarmed
and educated men today. Matthew 24
not only offers
hope
of a solution to the
problems, but absolutely
promises
that
solution with the same authority and
absoluteness as the prophecies of the
evils which must come before the solu–
tion! Read it sometime.
So on that Authority of all author–
ities
I
can conli.dently tell you that
rath~r
than seeing our eartb by the turn
of tbe century as a burned-out chunk of
cosmic cinder floating lifelessly through
space, dead by the hand of íts highest
form of intelligence - that rather, by
the turn of this century, the entire atmo–
sphere of this earth will have been
cleansed and returned to the pristine
purity of the Garden of Eden. That all
the water on the face of the eartb, now
polluted by man's greedy way of life
will be returned to the sweet, fresh,
life-giving substance it was created to be.
That all the tortured land will be
restored to a beautifully productive