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livery adult human being 1 know owns and drives at least one car and has electricity in his house. When a family produces five children, these enormous waste figures of course increase by five. Even if these five new people and their proud parents recycle until they are blue in the .face, their efforts cannot begin to compensate for the extra garbage, waste, and crowding they will create over their lifetimes.

And of course an expanding pop. ulation means industry must expand, along with its waste and pollution. Five more customers. It means more houses, more subdivisions, less open space.

Why are the natives busy cutting down the Brazilian forest? Why are the virgin forests of our Northwest being wiped out? It isn’t because it’s fun to use a chain saw. It isn’t because timber companies are greedy, although I’m sure they are. But for all their greed they can’t sell one stick of lumber until somebody, some additional family, needs a house.

An increasing population demands additional wood products for more homes. Increasing populations need food that can be grown on the

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