MEMO FROM

TO:. .
J. LEDERBERG % Cc
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GENETICS DEPARTMENT

STANFORD UNIVERSITY
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

RO

MAR 25 1979

 

1) Slip of the pen -~ or a partial solution
to the world population excess (wipe out the
unfree world?)

2) I don't understand the purpose of quoting
unreliable figures that you don't trust,
except to document and rebut them. Someone
has surely estimated that we're consuming

110% of the World's resources. You won't en-~
hance your credibility by wild attributions,
3) Do you happen to know what fraction of

the total consumption is a) fuels; 8) of
domestic origin.

4) Have you consideredi what fwould happen
to the ecenomy of the LDC's if we did not
purchase their raw materials? My own stress
would be to seek out the ways in which we
exploit the LDC's through direct and indirect
manipulations of commodity prices. We have
a dilemma-- how to reestablish fair prices

without an éncredible enrichment of the
"mining interests" in the US.

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