ECONOMIC AND POPULATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 August 1933, Page 10

ECONOMIC AND POPULATION

‘‘Behind the total economic situation, and conditioning' it, lie the jaws of population growth,” writes Captain G. 11. i.. F. Pitt Rivers. In a new.magazine, '■Population." “Physical; science and technical efficiency promoted the rapid development of industrial expansion culminating, during the later nineteenth century, in the final establishment of the doctrine of prosperity as measured by increasing markets for increasing production of exports and surpluses. This led to industrial planning based on continuity in existing trends in production. consumption and population. The logical consequence of this doctrine was the policy of cheapening production costs by increasing plant and machinery, doubling and ever redoubling output and reducing labour. A further consequence of the triumph of the industrial doctrine was (he neglect of agriculture and the sacrifice of the home market in favour of an expanding export market, on which we. in England depended for feeding the greatly increased population that our industrial progress brought into being.”