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NZ Truth, Issue 1174, 31 May 1928, Page 6

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THE world is never short of alarms 1 ists. When one is not predicting the end of the world through it smashing into a dead planet, another discovers that m 90,000,000 years of thereabouts the water-supply will van-, ish. •.•■.-.-

:Or again, as we have evidence this week, a scientific pundit m England forecasts that within measureabie time the population of the earth will outrun the means of subsistence, and the wretched inhabitants perish miserably of starvation.

And yet m a scientific book published several years ago the. late Prince Krapotkln demonstrated that enough food could be produced on the roofs of the houses of London to feed the whole . population, of the world's greatest city. . ' ,

We needn't worry overmuch about the dismal vaticinations of these pessimistic prophets. ,

When they tell us that humanity is going to H— alifax; that women are ho longer virtuous; that . children no longer respect their parents, and everything is rotten — well,, we simply say that they are lying. Things are all right with the world— but some of the dismal Jeremiahs should be cast overboard.