But the overpopulation having taken place, whatever the cause, the only remedy was depletion.
Overpopulation was not the fault of the people, but their misfortune.
But foroverpopulation the immediate remedy was depletion.
Apart from overpopulation and its effects, the Irish land-law unquestionably needed reform.
Due to overpopulation on Mars, I have been sent to inform the government of Earth that room must be made to take care of our overpopulation.
Overpopulation had long since ceased to be a problem--the atomic wars had seen to that.
I think, moreover, that since Mr. Huxley's day the whole opinion as to overpopulation has changed.
Abortion and infanticide are, as already stated, the earliest efforts of men to ward off the burden of children and the evils of overpopulation by specific devices of an immediate and brutal character.
Experience of the perils and pains of sexual excess and overpopulation force the development of folkways of restraint, which are customary and conventional regulations of primary natural impulses.
If Chaldean civilization goes back five or six thousand years before Christ, then the Chaldeans had had ample time, even before Hammurabi, to experience the evils of overpopulation and of sex vice.
In like manner, they were led to try to avert overpopulation by folkways.
These latter have, in fact, been up to very recent times the effective means through which the problem of overpopulation has been solved.
Overpopulation severely handicaps the economy and about a quarter of the population is too poor to be able to afford an adequate diet.
Now, in reality, overpopulation would occur whenever the production of the necessities of life in a country was insufficient for the support of all the inhabitants.
Nor is it of any use for Malthusians to say that overpopulation might be the cause of poverty.
For the growth of a nation we assume that the birth-rate should exceed the death-rate by from 10 to 20 per thousand, and it is obvious that in a closed country the evil of overpopulationmight appear in a comparatively short time.
If we show that de facto there is nooverpopulation it obviously cannot be a cause of anything, nor be itself caused by the joint operation of the first two causes.
Again, if the birth-rate fell as the population increased, the danger of overpopulation would be avoided without the aid of a high death-rate.
For our present purpose it will suffice if we are able to prove that overpopulation has not occurred in the past and is unlikely to occur in the future.
That Population progresses geometrically (b) That Food Supply progresses arithmetically (c) That Overpopulationis the cause of Poverty and Disease Section 3.
Thirdly, before anyone can reasonably maintain that overpopulation is the cause of poverty and disease, it is necessary to prove that overpopulation actually exists or is likely to occur in the future.
Even with artificial selection, however, some overpopulation would be necessary for the working of any scheme of selection.
The overpopulation which Malthus feared, so far from being an evil, has been shown by the labors of Darwin to be the condition essential to the working of the process of natural selection in the human species.
Robert Thomas Malthus, formulator of the doctrine which bears his name, pointed out, in the closing years of the eighteenth century, the relation of overpopulation to war.
That the Great War, from the horror of which we are just beginning to emerge, had its source inoverpopulation is too evident to be denied by any serious student of current history.
I mustn't blame Leffingwell for solving the overpopulation problem, even though he used me as a guinea-pig in his experiments.
With our present overpopulation problem, why in the world do they deliberately encourage the birth of more children?
And if the government said the Leff Shots would solve the overpopulation problem--without cutting down the number of consumers--well, was that really so bad?
Overpopulation has always been the curse of Asia, and this seemed to be such an obvious solution.
Intensive cultivation, postponement of fear of overpopulation by, 554.
They have not come for political or religious reasons but purely as seekers for wages, driven from the peasant villages by overpopulation and the hazards of a precarious agriculture.
Here was a crop so easy of culture and of such nourishing qualities that it led to overpopulation and all its attendant ills.
If for any reason it is less, then the extent of overpopulationincreases directly as the soil grows less in productive ability.
Emigration as a means of relief to theoverpopulation of Porto Rico will not solve the question.
The only means of meeting the situation of overpopulation is through increasing the food production of the Island by means of division into small farms, intensive cultivation, and modern methods of farming.
Such a situation must be changed or else the question ofoverpopulation will become indeed serious.
Among those who suffer of the overpopulation fear, and who demand the restriction of freedom to marry, especially for workingmen, belong particularly Prof.
We shall show what this fear of so-called overpopulation means; we shall trace the feared phenomenon back to its legitimate source.
The overpopulation which lies back of their colonization explains the human sacrifices in their religious orgies and funeral rites, as also the widespread practice of cannibalism.
