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Show The Enterprise Review, June 23, 1976 Rage 3b To Grow or Not to Grow Continued from page lb national average, Janke claimed. "This kind of birth rate forces Utahns to migrate out of the state. It would take a fantastic rate of economic growth to support our birth rate. Other states are subsidizing Utah. They are providing the. jobs for our children," he stated. Population is the clearest type of growth that humans maintain, Janke explained, and well soon find out we cannot mainiain it. We are limited by finite resources. There is only so much fertilizer and pesticide. There is only so much water, Janke said. worse than it was 30 years put us in more and more ago," he said. Jim Rock, associate professor of economics at the University of Utah, also addressed the question of income distribution in a noThe disgrowth economy. tribution of wealth is the major concern of advocates of this type of economy, he said. He did not seem to know how to solve what he. sees as a problem, but expressed confidence that the present economic system could handle a transition from growth to nogrowth. As shortages increase, prices will go up, he said. The price system helps make the transition from growth to he added. As vital materials grow' less abundant, it will cost more to stay alive. People will begin to use materials more efficiently, and they will last longer. Products will be built for durability and efficiency. People will pay higher initial costs in order to hold down operating costs later on, Rock predicted. no-growt- Water First To Go He predicted water would be the first resource over which Utahns will feel the pinch." He claimed Utahs water supply is already over- allocated. Our water allocation is a based on 14 million acre-fefrom River Colorado the year basin. But we don't really know how much water is available. Less than ten percent of what we think is there is not allocated. We need that much just for et error he said. Judging from comments made at last weeks conference on Utahs Financial and looked to politics for ultimate If people cannot solutions. Baffled With Transition have Jankes prediction may some truth to it. Five out of The transition from twelve speakers mentioned growth to is a water allocation as a major puzzling issue for most noconcern of their industries. growth advocates, it seems. ask to me a defend Janke said it takes three Why Janke position?" generations of zero population I asked them to growth to actually achieve a asked. defend growth. What is to population that does not grow. gain from growth? Long periods of time are a With and involved in speculations about stable population, you no the transition. And yet, Janke added, longer have a need for inno-grow- th th no-grow- logical solution to that. What They created happened? more sophisticated weapons. Instead of increasing national security they have decreased it. Now the weapons are too powerful to provide security, he said. pointed to Americans present habit of mobility as another problem in a economy. How could people move when there were only enough jobs for the present number of residents of each state, he asked. th th stop increasing the population voluntarily, we will have to see legislated. We can income tax exemptions stop no-grow- th Appointment of Farlin J. Appointment Murri to the post of General Sales Manager, Clover Club Foods Co., has been announced by Robert Sanders, President of the potato chip .and snack food company. Murri will have supervisory responsibilities for the sale of 24 snack food products in eight Western states. A native of Idaho, Murri joined Clover Club in 1950 as a salesman. He became eastern Idaho district manager in 1959, manager of the Texas Division in 1963, and returned to Idaho in 1966 as division manager. 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To do that we need to decrease the rate of turnover of goods. We dont have to buy a new car every three years," he added. I like to think people are creasing the number of jobs. attempts to maintain growth Growth advocates say the economy needs to grow in order to raise the standard of living. But since World War II weve had the greatest growth in history, the gap between every Friday evening incomes has increased. The beginning at 6:00 in the splendor distribution of wealth now is the Golden An Integrated Accounting System-t- he breakthrough that business and industry have been waiting for. All your business information can now be put into one package. All this information is available at the Look at the arms race. They tried to find a techno- Like Weilenmann, Janke no-grow- Our Integrated Accounting System makes data processing work... at last. said. Milton Weilenmann Growth Opportunities', no-grow- circumstances. desperate We are scrambling for land, We are food, resources. our own throats. cutting Why not be rational?" he asked. Weilenmann predicted a change in attitude toward growth w ould only come about We need courpolitically. age. We need a President and legislature that can . set the moral tone," he said He added he thinks additional sources of energy can be found. We need to tap mens minds," he said. But Janke said there is no technological solution to the problems caused by growth. "Don't look for technological solutions when the problem is not of technical origin," Janke e housing, energy and water resources? ...For hosting and the Salt Lake visit of The Freedom Train. Russian Cosmonauts. 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