¶ Enough to Go Around (1)
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Enough to Go Around:
"To speak about the next 30 years of humanity on Earth in only 30 minutes leaves only about a minute per year. But the next 30 years will be a period of extraordinary challenge in our time.
"There has been no other time in the history of human beings upon our planet where so many humans have had knowledge of the existence of so many other humans…the vast increase in knowledge has the potential of liberating mankind from the clutches of poverty, pestilence, and war…First human beings have to learn to deal with the totality of their planet and the needs of the rest of their fellow beings.
“Man gradually survived the evolutionary process by learning how to cope with his environment. The vast know-how accumulation that has taken place in our time has given us the ability to take care of everyone on this planet. The world is rapidly becoming integrated, not isolated. Sixty percent of humanity now experiences a higher standard of living than the richest king did when I was a child.”
- RBF quoted by Bob Swetnam in Pomona, CA., Progress Bulletin, 17 Apr’77
