Intro-1976

I'm not sure how many of you got the reissued edition, but this is from the intro. The book was originally written in 1948, and the intro was written in 1976. Skinner is explaining why he thinks the book received so much attention, after first going unnoticed for a decade.

"But there was, I think, a better reason why more and more people began to read the book. The world was beginning to face problems of an entirely new order of magnitude- the exhaustion of resources, the pollution of the environment, overpopulation, and the possibility of a nuclear holocaust, to mention only four...
...How were people to be induced to use new forms of energy, to eat grain rather than meat, and to limit the size of their families; and how were atomic stockpiles to be kept out of the hands of desperate world leaders?"

Couldn't this have been written TODAY? The issues we're dealing with now (which are knocked for being "trendy") have been around a long time, and have only been growing more dire.