{Population Settlement}[11th June 1972]

[Redbook1:249][19720611:1522]{Population Settlement}[11th June 1972]

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            This is perhaps the first time in which we have faced the prospect of continually rising population (ie pressure on resources and on people) together with a complete lack of anywhere to which to emigrate. It has nearly always been possible previously for a man to escape from society and to find for himself a piece of land whose ownership vests in him automatically and to build his house there and to support himself there in isolation. It is not now generally possible to do this.  This is much more serious than most people realise.

            We must provide people with the equivalent of this lost facility, especially for the procurement of dwelling space by direct labour (rather than earnings) and for the sublimation or relief of tendencies produced in reaction to the so-called ‘pressures of society’.

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