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A PAPER read by J. L. Hodgson before the Royal Society of Arts on Jan. 20, discussing “Some Aspects of the Problem of Industrial and Communal Waste”, included a number of highly controversial j questions, but dealt with many matters which are the subject of much anxious thought to-day and, above all, merit the attention of scientific workers. The contrast between the immense potential productivity of the world, which is largely the result of the application of scientific method and discoveries, and the immense amount of poverty and unemployment which exists side by side with such productive powers, is essentially a challenge to scientific workers whose labours have been a vital factor in increasing the productive capacity of the world. Among other causes of the present position indicated by Mr. Hodgson are not only the numerous forms of industrial waste, but also those forms of communal waste such as armaments, tariffs, unemployment, inadequate i housing, sanitary, medical, and educational facilities, restrictions on transport, and, sometimes, forms of rationalisation which tend to reduce the wealth and services available within a community.
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Forms of Communal and Industrial Waste. Nature 129, 444–445 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129444b0
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