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Can we grasp, for instance, that in spite of weather vagaries, even in spite of present soil erosion, there is and could be more than enough produced to-day to allow everyone everywhere a fair standard of living, without entailing drudgery for anybody?

— Vera Stanley Alder Humanity Comes of Age, A study of Individual and World Fulfillment (1950)

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