A GLOBAL VIEW 9 



poor land is usually lacking in nutrient quality it may not, for in- 

 stance, provide the proteins needed by the man to produce antibodies; 

 and, human health suffers resistance to disease decreases. 



Abnormal men on an abnormal landscape inevitably engage in 

 abnormal behavior. Aggressive individual fighting and aggressive 



FIG-. 5. Here man's mismanagement of the power residing- in falling 1 rain has 

 disrupted every natural cycle on this landscape. The concentrated minerals of 

 the topsoil are being- dispersed; the normal infiltration of water has been disas- 

 trously reduced. The hydrologlc cycle, perverted from its normal, healthy course, 

 grinds away the foundation of all life. 



war are abnormal, regardless of their antiquity. Normal behavior is 

 never wilfully destructive. We could go through a long list of un- 

 desirable and destructive behavior traits, which operate in abnormal 

 situations such as deprivation of a completely normal diet, shortages 

 of other necessities to daily living, or even lack of luxuries to which 

 one thinks he is entitled. Inadequate supplies of earth products stimu- 

 late fears, suspicions, and aggressive acts between individuals, groups, 

 regions, and nations. 



The chaotic state of the world has become chronic over the cen- 

 turies. It is certainly not a modern phenomenon. Every civilization 

 has eventually exhausted itself, either by wars between nations or by 

 internal war with nature. No one, no group can win a war against 

 nature. The disruption of natural cycles, the doctrine of "take and 

 never repay," is suicidal and never more than temporarily profitable. 



