It involved a vast and more or less wasteful exploitation of our natural resources. The expectation of a continued rapid increase in population has constituted an important element in our national calculations and policies. At the present time a declining birth rate. plus limitations on foreign immigration. indicate that soon after 1960 the population will have reached its maximum. after which it will begin to decline. But although our population may become stationary. or in fact decline. we must not weaken in our determination to develop our lands to their fullest and best uses. We want our children. whether they are greater or lesser in number. to have a greater average share in the fullness of the earth than we today have.
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