Whole-earth mentor: a conversation with Eugene P. Odum

Natural History, Oct, 1998 by J. Thomas Chaffin

We're about to enter a new millennium. Are you optimistic?

I'm hopeful that we can handle the bust. We're very resourceful. We get knocked down, but we get up quick. Humans are the most resilient organisms that ever appeared on earth.

But you see a bust coming?

Oh, sure. It's already here.

Tom Chaffin teaches American history at Emory University and is director of Emory's Oral History Project. He published Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U.S. War Against Cuba in 1996.