The percentage of people
living in cities is much higher
than the percentage working in industry.
Without a base of people working in industry,
these cities cannot pay for their growth;
there is not enough money
to build adequate houses for the people
that live there,
let alone the new arrivals.
There has been little opportunity
to build water supplies or other facilities.
So the figures for the growth of towns
and cities represent proportional growth of
unemployment and underemployment,
a growth in the number of hopeless
and despairing parents and starving children.
Now the passage will be read
for the third time.
W: More and more of the world’s population
are living in towns or cities.
The speed at which cities are growing
in the less developed countries is alarming.
Between 1920 and 1960,
big cities in developed countries
increased two and a half times in size,
but in other parts of the world
the growth was eight times their size.
The sheer size of growth is bad enough,
but there are now also very disturbing signs of trouble
in the comparison of percentages of people
living in towns and percentages of people
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