“There are difficult choices to be made that have important social and environmental consequences. You have to protect the elderly and the poor.”

Alive

On the Democratic Idea in America (New York, 1972), p. ix.
1970s

not just the extinction of species and animals and plants, that fifty years ago was the first signs of impending global disaster, but traffic congestion, oil prices, pressure on the health service , the growth of mega-cities, migration patterns, immigration policies, unemployment, the loss of arable land, desertification, famine, increasingly violent weather, the acidification of the oceans, the collapse of fish stocks, rising sea temperatures, the loss of rain forest. The list goes on and on. But they all share an underlying cause. Every one of these global problems, environmental as well as social becomes more difficult – and ultimately impossible - to solve with ever more people.
How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? (BBC Horizon, 2009)

Source: Just Listen

Source: Elantris

Source: A Conspiracy of Kings

Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Kenneth Arrow, "Uncertainty and The Welfare Economics of Medical Care", The American Economic Review(1953)
1950s-1960s