Conservation: Happy Future Days

If its population continues to expand at the present rate, by the year 2000 the U.S. will find itself supporting some 300 million people. Will the country's natural resources be able to stand the strain? Having asked itself the question, a Ford Foundation study group called Resources for the Future spelled out a 1,000-page answer that bristles with confidence Come the turn of the century, says th report,' U.S. resources will easily be able to support U.S. citizens on the lush leve of living they will have learned to expect.

That bright view of the future include some...

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