Commonly Held Falacies
" 'Man has solved his problems,' Old Jay went on. 'Predators he has removed from the earth; heat and cold he has turned aside; communicable disease he has practically eliminated. The old live on, the young do not die.... In a foreseeable future we shall be smothered by our own numbers....It is a cosmic joke. Preoccupation with survival has set the stage for extinction.' "
John Steinbeck
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