Too many Asians / John Robbins.

  • John Robbins
Date:
1959
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Credit: Too many Asians / John Robbins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tom LOO MANY ASIANS No sooner does an Asian nation succeed in taking a step forward toward economic progress than the inexorable effects of population growth move it backward by a step —Or MOre. Asia contains about one-sixth of the world’s land, on which live slightly more than half of the world’s nearly three billion inhabitants. Every year of our own era, the number of people on earth grows around 50 million, equivalent to the population of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland... every. day we increase in number by 140,000, adding what amounts to nearly a daily Des Moines to the world. | To give one acre apiece... to each new Indian added to the population over a ten-year period would require a fertile territory the size of Illinois plus no or the size of West Germany. Each new starving belly among the millions of already hungry Asians adds to the sum total of human misery by an amount so definite as to be almost measurable. If humanity is to have a future, the unrestricted growth of population in already crowded lands must be brought to a halt.
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