Letter from the Continent

POPULATION EXPLOSION?

Americans always talk and write and worry about the population explosion. Europeans, on the other hand, are beginning to think they need more people. They have become skeptical of population projections and the various theories of “overpopulation.” They don’t understand the concern of Americans—whose country is underpopulated by their standards. For example, the Netherlands has nearly one thousand people per square mile and has to import foreign labor. The state of Pennsylvania has 250 people per square mile.

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POPULATION EXPLOSION?

Americans always talk and write and worry about the population explosion. Europeans, on the other hand, are beginning to think they need more people. They have become skeptical of population projections and the various theories of “overpopulation.” They don’t understand the concern of Americans—whose country is underpopulated by their standards. For example, the Netherlands has nearly one thousand people per square mile and has to import foreign labor. The state of Pennsylvania has 250 people per square mile.