dency ratio of children and elderly to working populations? That would mean Canada was more "overpopulated" in 1965 than India is today…. If overpopulation is a problem, it is a problem that has been misidentified and mis-defined. The images evoked by the term-hungry children, squalid housing, early death-speak to problems all too real in the modern world. But these are properly described as problems of poverty” And it is by no means clear that population causes poverty, as Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan can all testify, these are all over-populated territories and yet economically most advanced. ...