The world and the phobia of population growth


<<Each child born in supernumero compared to the perpetrator to maintain the population at the necessary level must inevitably perish, unless for him it will be done by the death of adults>>. This, One of the most famous steps of Thomas Robert Malthus's theories, British economist who lived between the end of the 1700s and the beginning of’ 800. The words of these days, of the English Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, <<Get used to losing your loved ones>>, The Mrestusian theory on the demographic control of the population seem to resonate, through which, National governments “they would be authorized” to put in place certain behaviors in case of epidemic: from promoting anti-hygienic behaviors up to<<deplore the specific remedies for the spread of diseases>>. But maybe it's not just a coincidence, that Johnson, It is only the last of a long list of rulers to marry behaviors that go in the opposite direction to the support and protection of human life. Just as it is only a coincidence, that Covid-19 goes to manifest more aggressive symptoms towards subjects already affected by other pathologies and in the oldest bands of the population. It is certainly not a mystery that the great majority of the world, both worried about demographic increases and undertake to control their explosion. A world, Therefore, and less and less human and increasingly accounting than human lives to beat in exchange for a programmed order. But the most interesting questions are certainly those about the new geo-economic sets post epidemic, With the consequence that all this certainly goes to expand the differential of the economic power of the individual states: who previously enjoyed an advantageous position, will acquire increasing weight, while the states in difficulty will see their critical issues increase and in the presence of an economy unable to create, but only to move wealth, The effects will inevitably be colonist. It would be possible to think that this health emergency, both for some economies, Really an opportunity. Focusing instead, Our attention to our country, Perhaps the time has really come to restore value to certain strategic growth assets and learn from this lesson that the state support in favor of sectors or the entire internal market are essential for economic and industrial growth, without any fear of “reproaches” in the name of treaties signed in the past and which did nothing in the event of emergencies similar to this. No conviction or hypothesis is in this article, but only an invitation to a healthy reflection.

Dr. Lamberti Giuseppe

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