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Migration isn’t just for the birds : Comments
By Philippe Legrain, published 19/2/2007It’s time for fresh thinking about immigration.
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Why does nobody seem to care that migration only takes brain power away from the poor countries? Students who come here and successfully complete their courses are given the opportunity to stay, instead of going back to do something for their native countries and raise their standard of living so that they have less imperitive to breed large families.
No one seems to care that our finite resources will one day be exhausted and we will all have to live on what we can grow sustainably, or produce from other renewable sources. That means a significant reduction in the world population.
Go and read Malthus on "The principle of population"
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/malthus/malthus.0.html