Gordon R. TAYLOR, 1971: The Doomsday Book, London: Thames & Hudson; Greenwich, Conn. USA: Fawcett.

We have become too interconnected, physically, too disconnected psychologically. It is our way of life that has to be changed. [p. 278. of Fawcett edition.]

In the early stages of industrialization, the benefits in terms of real satisfaction are great. Running water and electric light make life vastly less onerous. A home, sufficient clothes, good food are of basic importance. But industrial civilization have reached the point where a majority of the population is consuming goods which yield only marginal satisfactions. We consume far more clothing than we need, ... One more reason why the panic rush of technology cannot continue much longer is the drain on world resources. The inhabitants of North America, about 7 1/2 per cent of humanity, are using about half the world's yield of basic resources. By 2000 they will, if permitted, be using all of them. ... Philip M. Hauser, the sociologist, considers that world resources could support a population of about half a billion, only, at the current US standard. [p. 280 -- 281 of Fawcett edition. Emphasis is from the original.]