Should it just become depopulated, or is he prepared to give further inducements to industries to go there?
Has he a completely closed mind and is he prepared to depopulate these areas completely of workers?
But that means that the countryside will rapidly depopulate.
As a result of poverty and disease, vast territories are virtually depopulated, even without war.
The bureaucratic planning authorities which, with their dogmatic beliefs, are destroying and depopulating rural society, need to show more understanding.
The regional differences between growth regions and depopulated areas could be increased.
Instead of allowing those areas to become depopulated, we should establish light industries there to produce consumer durable goods.
The highlands were largely depopulated by the clearances in earlier centuries.
