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Program 29: The Politics of Ecology

Aldous Huxley predicts that the most pressing problems facing democracy in the following ten years will be the population explosion, the arms race, and rising nationalism. He suggests that shifting our attention from bad politics to enlightened ecological understanding may help prevent war. This opening meeting of a symposium held at the Center on Prospects for Democracy is introduced by Robert M. Hutchins and includes discussion. [ca. Nov. 30, 1962]. [CSDI program number 29 ; UCSB tape numbers A7527/R7, A7528/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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