The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

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Identifikator:: 1775636852

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-164018

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Author:: Knibbs, George Handley http://d-nb.info/gnd/1045010944

Title:: The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Ernest Benn Limited

Year of publication:: (1928)

Scope:: 131 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. The migration of populations

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THE MIGRATION OF POPULATIONS 81 energy, and the possibilities for him of the mineral, vegetable and animal wealth, which potentially is at his command. These are what may be called the environmental factors. There are also what may be called the human or personal factors, and these are also of the first order of importance. In turning his resources to account Man needs knowledge, inventiveness, and that insight which leads to discovery. He needs also strength of purpose, courage, the capacity to create and to regulate the social organism, and the ethical qualities by means of which all human relationships are ameliorated, and which facilitate both his economic and his social de- velopment. All these things affect his scatter upon the earth’s surface. To be most effective in the purposes of life, he must perfect both his physical and his mental organism; in other words a good physical and a good mental hygiene are desiderata which profoundly affect his well-being and the security of his territorial occupation. Clearly he needs also to create and to develop such a scheme of economic and of social relations with his fellows, as will best conserve his energies and render them most fruitful and beneficent. For, by reducing all clashing of interest to a minimum, it becomes possible for his productivity to become a maximum. Thus the attainment of individual, communal, national and international justice, the systematic spread of acquired knowledge, the co-ordination of all effort to secure the most complete acquaintance with his environ- ment, are factors of far-reaching importance. Thrift, self-discipline, energy, habits of perseverance, and in- difference to luxury are all conducive to increase of population-density. ‘Thus, as previously indicated, the ethical elements of Man’s “make-up” are essential to his well-being. This is a difficulty when we take into account something more than mere numbers in regard

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