‘Rich And Poor’ Species

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31315, 10 March 1967, Page 13

‘Rich And Poor’ Species

fN .Z.P.A .-Reuter—Copyright) PASADENA (Calif.), March 9.

An American biologist has predicted a time when the world’s rich will come to regard the poor as a separate human species.

Dr. James Bonner, of the California Institute of Technology, gave this warning on Tuesday night at a conference on the dangers of the widening gap between developed and under-developed nations.

If the gap continues to widen, Dr. Bonner said, “We will begin to regard the starving populace of the under-de-veloped nations as a race or species apart, people totally different from us, as indeed they will be. ‘Just Animals’ “We will say: ‘They are just animals, and a serious reservoir of disease.’ “The inevitable culmination of the rift between the two cultures will be that one culture—the rich—will devour the other.” Another prominent American scientist, Dr. George Harar, the President of the

Rockefeller Foundation of New York, predicted that mere survival may become the chief concern of the greater part of mankind.

“The more developed nations cannot, for any considerable period of time, or in any significant dimension, feed portions of the world which remain static in terms of their own food production efforts,” he said.

“Unless this is clearly understood and maximum efforts are made to reverse systems of under-production wherever they exist, survival will indeed become npankind’s chief concern.”