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Item Energy Sources for the Future(Texas A&M University Environmental Quality Program, 1971-06) Cook, EarlMan cannot continue to expand his numbers indefinitely. At some point in the future, his global birth rate and death rate must come into balance. This balance can be either of two kinds. It can be a statistical balance representing wide swings in the death rate, by which periods of excess of births over deaths are compensated for by periods, probably shorter and more traumatic, of excess of deaths over births. Or it can be an equilibrium balance, representing an evolutionary decline in the birth rate to meet an already low and controlled death rate. Whichever kind of balance, unstable or stable, ultimately emerges and whatever the size and distribution of the human population at that time, the level of living of that population will depend largely on the energy resources available to it. Population and standard of living are interdependent variables dependent on energy. Any attempt to discern the quality of future human society should begin with a discussion of the energy sources available to that society.Item Human Response to Hurricane Celia(Texas A&M University Environmental Quality Program, 1972-07) Schaffer, Ruth C.; Cook, EarlTo clarify some of the problems related to human reaction to natural disaster, a post-hurricane study was made of the attitudes and behavior of selected Corpus Christi, Texas, residents toward Hurricane Celia which struck the Gulf Coast of Texas on August 3, 1970. For several months prior ro the hurricane, a team of researchers from the Environmental Quality Program at Texas A&M University had been engaged in a study of oil-drilling regulation and related attitudes and decision events in Corpus Christi. Recognizing the importance of recording human response to disaster as rapidly as possible after the event to eliminate methodological problems of recall and reconstruction, researchers designed a questionnaire and administered it to groups previously selected for the study referred to above. No attempt was made to develop a random sample of Corpus Christi residents, and no previous study has been conducted which afforded a basis of data comparison. The study was designed to determine (1) attitudes of selected residents toward Celia and hurricanes generally, (2) the effect Celia had on respondents, (3) what action respondents had taken before, during, and after Celia struck, and (4) post-hurricane attitudes toward public and private preventive and relief programs.