``Nature is clearly intent
on making humans successful."

      Malthus was wrong. He forgot a factor: our continual ability to do more and more with less and less.

      "Ephemeralization," Fuller called it. Not long ago America telephoned Europe via 175,000 tons of transatlantic copper cables. Now a single quarter-ton communications satellite does the job better, faster, clearer, with more bandwidth and a fraction of the energy. Malthus could not have conceived of modern refrigeration, transportation or electronics.(Transistors are an example of doing almost anything with practically nothing.)

      ``I had found out that Malthus was the essence of how and why it had to be either you or me, and why there is selfishness," said Fuller. ``I thought the economists might be wrong; that it might not be a generalized law that there will always be inadequacy. It occurred to me that if we keep on doing more and more with less and less, we might someday do so much with so little that we can take care of everybody."

      Fuller's updated figures showed ``it is now highly feasible to (provide for) everybody on earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival. War is obsolete."

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