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Design Science:
"I am confident that no political actions, no matter how well thought out, can eliminate war when the resources of the Earth are so ill employed as to fail to take care of all of humanity.
"So long as many are going to die due to poverty, disease, and general inadequacy, while others prosper, there will always be cause for the have-nots to displace the haves. Under conditions of general inadequacy and dying prematurely either by poverty-induced ill health or by weapons, the have-nots have everything to win and nothing to lose in undertaking war.
“I now know by experimental evidence that it is technically and economically feasible to take care of all of humanity without anyone prospering at the expense of others, while only employing the world resources already mined and employing only the knowledge already acquired by humanity, all of which universal prosperity can be accomplished by 1985. For example, humanity does not even think of its buildings in terms of weight, but I have found it possible to reduce the weight of buildings to only one percent of the weight now employed, and I have now over 100,000 domes in half the countries around the world to prove the point.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Ltr. to Dayton Young, House Springs, MO, 29 Jun’73
