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Pollution: Infinite Room to Pollute:
“Thinking of Universe only as an infinitely extensive plane, humanity felt itself logically justified in throwing away its refuse outside the boundaries of its particular domain-- there was infinity into which all pollution would be ultimately dissipated into infinite innocuousness. It meant nothing to dump a teacup into an infinite ocean. If there is an infinitely extended world, then we may assume that when we exhaust the present familiar resources, we will, as in the past, keep on finding new and better alternate resources, ad infinitum-- so why should we worry and be fussy. Never mind about tomorrow. Never mind about the other fellow. The more ruthlessly selfish one is, the better off is one and all his dependents.”
“So the difference between closed system surfaces and a closed Universe in respect to the utterly open, infinite flat slab world concept with which man has been ignorantly rationalizing all past experience, is the ‘similar difference’ between humanity’s extinction or its continuation upon this beautifully equipped and provisioned, closed system, space vehicle Earth. It is clearly to be utopia or oblivion-- and no half measures. We must begin today to expose our youth and ourselves to the fundamental self-discipline conceptioning which is the only real educational process.” 13Nov. ‘>’ fleetrusPEECEHF,p.p.22-23
