King M
Academic Unit of Public Health Medicine, University of Leeds, UK.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 1993 Apr;87 Suppl 1:S23-8. doi: 10.1016/0035-9203(93)90523-s.
Demographic entrapment is a situation in which a population exceeds the carrying capacity of its own ecosystem and its 'connectedness' to other ecosystems. It can be looked upon as a disorder of the demographic transition which presents serious ethical problems in that there are occasions on which there is a conflict between the interests of the child and the community. Reasons are given for the aid agencies' recognizing the existence of entrapment, which presently they do not. Since there are at present considerable obstacles to their doing this, we must accept a period of 'legitimate double-think' meanwhile.
人口陷阱是指一个种群超过其自身生态系统的承载能力以及与其他生态系统的“联系”的一种情况。它可被视为人口转变的一种紊乱，这会引发严重的伦理问题，因为在某些情况下儿童利益与社区利益之间存在冲突。文中给出了援助机构认可人口陷阱存在的理由，而目前它们并未这样做。由于目前它们这样做存在相当大的障碍，所以在此期间我们必须接受一段“合理的双重思维”时期。
