But we cannot and will not see such a world if a third or more of its people are illfed. uneducated. and suffer devastating poverty. The administrations claim that a growing population can add to economic health may well have been true in the context of the nineteenth century industrialization of the Western nations. But that sanguine view overlooks the fact that U.S. economic growth depended as much upon the rapid expansion in our adult population through immigration as upon a highbirth rate. And it overlooks the fact that Europes unemployed millions were able to emigrate to escape poverty and hopelessness at home. No such opportunity exists for Third World peoples today. Nor is there any rational comparison to be made between the economic contributions made by grown adults and the economic needs of small children.
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