Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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No more progress, that much I am sure of. We must have no more progress. Progress has become the whore of civilization. It is the gift that never stops giving. But what it is giving, is not a matter of life but a care for death. We have planes, and trucks, and toys, and guns and all seem part of the same great death industry. Man's instinct for destruction is reigning in a very un- challengeable position. We can kill more people than we have ever killed before. We can eliminate more forests than man has ever eliminated. We can fill the oceans with our poisons. We can destroy the world with our noises. What will it do for the quality of human life to have fast- er and faster airplanes, bigger and better bombs, stronger and more effective pesticides, or a cigarette with a more cooling filter? Man's technology is building its toys and machines not for man, but for some demon which lurks around in the insanity called progress. Maybe it is the animal within me that protests. My ape ancestry is crying for forests and bananas and something a bit simpler than today. Perhaps, we can escape to the jun- gle. Perhaps, we can pile the SST's, the atomic bombs, the factories and their pollution into one big pile an'd burn them in one final gasp of pollution, one that will free us to live. Alas, it is not that simple. We can only live and face the monsters we have created. Perhaps our situation will force us to find a way to live. Yes, in that must rest any op- timism. We must live. There is no other way. I can see nothing left to do but live. I cannot see what shape the answers will take. But I know, that there must be no more progress unless it is human progress. We must find a way to live. I is-, P

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Man has just begun in earnest what may be the most important battle of his existence. It is not a battle in the usual sense. He is not fighting other men. Nor is it a battle of the jack London va- riety - man against nature. Man is in a battle with himself, fighting his own greed and selfishness. And, however maudlin it may sound, the struggle is in every sense to the death. For through his blind avarice man is destroying his environment and it, in turn, will de- stroy him. Throughout time man has taken what he wanted from the earth. The food for his belly has come from the mountains and forests. But man has not given in return for what he has taken. He has slowly stripped his surround- ings of their immediate worth and left only his excrement. If you look you can easily see the success man has had in taking from the earth. There are millions of chrome- plated cars and thousands of shiny air- planes in which to ride. There are a multitude of housing developments and apartment complexes in which to live. Gigantic shopping centers and supermarkets offer almost everything conceivable to make life easier. But if you look you can also easily see the price man's success has exacted. The polluted air is becoming unbreath- able andthe water undrinkable. Beside the glorious highways are hugh junk yards replete with garbage. It is true that man has conquered the wilder- ness, yet, he has left a wasteland. People are becoming aware of the crisis. At one time in history the fight was carried on by a handfull of what we then considered to be 'square' conser- vationists. Now the movement is del- uged by concerned people who are organizing for the battle. Its popularity will only be a blessing if it does not fade. Dr. Kenneth E. F. Watt, professor of Zoology at the University of California, 32 4' G gtk 7 ' tzefis X X6 61,5 ci K Y Yaesu! GW' x xffklll g t ts 5, ...,. . I -' ' in A Q 1'at'lx' , 3 X XR XXX xg Y ...EG ,ig ix.. X X ti. g x POPULATl0l i it I 2 qwtgkx. Q 3 4 .XY ' V R M U RACE T0