to represent, and still represent for many, both

desirable and attainable goals.13 But an unlimited

growth of production does not set well with a limited

environment.

 Recently, concern for the limits of the earth

has re-emerged, on a scale in some circles and on some
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 subjects approaching panic proportions. It has become

 apparent that the wanton exploitation of the earth

 might involve undesirable costs and might offer

 possibilities we would not like to imagine. Growth for

 growth's sake has come to be questioned, and even recog-

 nized by some as the philosophy of a cancer cell.

 Further, growth of income for some at the exclusion, and

 possibly at the expense, of others, the untoward gobbling-up


 1Some would go further, and consider growth not
just desirable, but essential. On the other hand, see
William Woodruff, Impact of Western Man (New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1967), p. xv:

 "I suspect that economic growth--like so many
other aspects of our work that have managed to claim
a disproportionate part of our time in the past--is
receiving more attention than its true importance
warrants. There is nothing fundamentally new about
economic growth (or decline) except our present
obsession with it. Despite the present high rate of
increase in material well-being of certain nations,
most men do not face 'self-sustained, continuous
economic growth;' they face the problem of survival."

 The most distressed seem to be those whose
main concern lies in population growth. Yet the
greatest polluters and the greatest users of resources
are not the many who live outside of industrialized
areas, but the few who live within them.