FALLING, POPULATION
A SITUATION TO AVOID. “People often ask me why we British shouldn’t let our population get smaller,” said Professor A. M. CarrSaunders, director of the London School of Economics, in a broadcast talk. “They seem to think that if we had two million fewer people in Britain, automatically unemployment would vanish. But unemployment does not depend on the size of the population, it depends on such things as the state of trade, and that largely depends on the international situation. Look at America; they have certainly not got too many people—only forty per square mile compared with Britain’s 700—but they have got unemployment just the same. No, a falling population won't do any good. In fact, I think it is a dangerous ten,dency. If we allow the number of old 1 people to increase too far, compl.red with the number of workers, the workers won’t be able to support a lot of children as well as a lot of old people, and so the tendency to have small families will get more and more general. That’s the danger. Once the population has realy started, falling we may not be able to stop it.'
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1939, Page 7
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