Abstract

The chapter presents a balance sheet that shows Europe as it appears today in the light of the political situation, demography, and geographical and economic data. Europe's place in the world has changed radically. It no longer controls more than one-third of the land and one-quarter of the people together with their wealth in the form of primary resources. Restricted as regards the amount of space available, short of rich ores and fossil energy, and fragile as regards its ecology, Western Europe is ill-suited to giant-scale industry and cities. Europe is threatened with permanent scarcities, which it can meet only by means of imports to render it economically and politically dependent. The system of values that constituted Europe's moral strength is being contested. This crisis is the manifestation of a failure to adapt culturally to the changes caused in society by advent of the new techniques.

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