a new era of aggressive expansion?

In that overpopulation and its associated dreadful diseases brought Western civilization out of the Dark Ages into a new era of aggressive expansion, signs of similar problems emerging in today's western nations - caused by unprecedented immigration - may bring about a similar resurgence in western strength of purpose, but unfortunately there are no 'new worlds' like the Americas and Australia to discover and escape to.

Overpopulation in all parts of the world is worse than it has ever been, and it is a particular problem of big cities where the immigrants congregate. As the lebensraum: people per square mile chart shows, the Earth's total land surface is 575,096,920 square miles - not all of which, of course, is habitable - and in the 66 years from 1937 to 2003 the population of the world increased from 2,100m to 6,300m which, expressed as people per square mile of the earth's land surface, equates to an increase of 3.65 to 10.95.

In 2003, therefore, every one of us was living in nearly one-third less space than we had 66 years ago - and very shortly we will be living in half the space we have now. When there is nowhere to escape to - no Lebensraum - where is all that energy and aggression going to be directed?

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