DEPOPULATION
THE DOWNWARD CURVE [By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent] LONDON, 25th March, Important people are demanding a Royal Commission on depopulation. They draw horrific pictures of a rapidly dwindling birthrate, collapsing social services, exhausted revenue, stagnate industry, and easy conquest by alien invaders. All this is in strange contrast with the equally emphatic prophecies only a few decades ago of fatal overcrowding owing to the exactly opposite evil of over-popu-lation. For the falling birthrate the alarmist blamo post-war selfishness, the decay of home life .overtaxation, and birth control propaganda. But dispassionate scientists engaged in careful cxaniinat ion of tho facts, with whom I have discussed this problem, refuse to accept any of theso causes as adequate. They hold that there are recurring waves of over and under population, quite beyond human control, and that at present the Western world is on a downward curve as much beyond State influence as the motions of the planets
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 1 May 1937, Page 9
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