‘INTOLERABLE’ POPULATION
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LONDON, July 14.
If something was not done soon about the world’s population explosion, “the lives of our great-great-grand-children will be intolerable.” Sir Julian Huxley told the British Medical Association’s first plenary session at Swansea today.
Sir Julian Huxley said that unless something was done, the world’s population would reach 6000 m by 1999.
He suggested that birth control should be the responsibility of the British Ministry of Health and he hoped the
British Medical Association would set up a special committee to examine its medical and social aspects. In over-sized tropical cities, such as Calcutta, people were living as so much
“virus fodder,” Sir Julian Huxley said. “We are in serious danger of becoming the cancer of our own planet," he said. Sir Julian Huxley also referred to artificial insemination by donor, when talking about the possibility of improving the standard of population by eugenics.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 15
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