Clark wrote to the Company on 12 April 1899, once more attaching copies of his concessions, with an offer to supply the BSAC settlements in Southern Rhodesia with contract labourers taken from among his neighbouring chiefs' populations.
Finally (or maybe not so finally), on November 16th, Bush appointed one Eric Keroack to be the new chief of "population affairs" at the Department of Health and Human Services.
The problems, highlighted by the latest census, are now acute in London and other big cities, where education chiefs say population growth – coinciding with the movement of people into cheaper areas as the recession and benefit cuts bite – is creating intense pressure in less wealthy boroughs.
Simon Ross, the chief executive of Population Matters, the UK's leading charity on population and sustainability issues, claimed that natural resources could not sustain the number of people in Britain or on the planet indefinitely.
Jorge del Pinal, assistant division chief for special population statistics at the bureau, said there were other possible explanations.
Immigration has been a chief cause of population increase, but it was slowed through changes in immigration policy in 1980 and 1982, and emigration rose from the late 1980s.
"No one can know the exact number of people on the globe," Gerhard Heilig, chief of the population estimates and projections section of the United Nations Population Division, acknowledges.
Forty-eighters, as the revolutionaries were known, made up a significant portion of the German-American population; chief among them was Carl Schurz, who supported Lincoln, was elected a senator from Missouri, and served as Rutherford B. Hayes's Secretary of the Interior.
It is barely mentioned in discussions on sustainability or development such as the UN-led sustainable development goals," said Simon Ross, chief executive of Population Matters, a thinktank supported by naturalist Sir David Attenborough and scientist James Lovelock.
