Tarifvertrag über die Gehalts- und Arbeitsbedingungen der sämtlichen Angestellten der chemischen Industrie Groß-Berlins

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:: 1763753433

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-144285

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Title:: Tarifvertrag über die Gehalts- und Arbeitsbedingungen der sämtlichen Angestellten der chemischen Industrie Groß-Berlins

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Sieben Stäbe Verlags- und Druckereigesellschaft m. b. H.

Year of publication:: [1926]

Scope:: 16 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: § 1. Geltungsbereich des Vertrages

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24 ‘THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE the discoveries of methods of combating yellow-fever, sleeping-sickness, hookworm, malaria, filariasis, etc., have rendered many territories much safer for habita- tion—territories which formerly were so dangerous as to be virtually uninhabitable. To put the matter more briefly, advances in medicine and hygiene, by diminishing the risks of life, and in science and its applications by increasing human wealth, have already achieved much in helping the world to carry a con- siderably larger population. And it is this fact which appears strikingly in the astonishing collateral advance of population which has characterised the nineteenth century—yviz., an annual increase of about six-sevenths of 1 per cent. It 1s obvious that, as the world’s population develops, the actual population-densities in the different regions tend to approach the population-carrying capacities under the existing conditions. Since this is inevitable, the question of the migration of human beings is at once raised. Behind this, too, lies the measures of response to the reproductive instinct which are char- acteristic of different peoples. What is the multiplying power of various races under the various conditions that are possible on earth? This, it may be said, is— as it is in all forms of life—vastly greater than the food- conditions of the earth will permit to be realised. In Chapter I we have already seen that rates of increase recently experienced, could they possibly continue, would inevitably involve the world in difficulty. Adequate food-supplies are not possible. Man’s repro- ductive powers are held in check by what has been called “ the niggardliness of Nature.” How, we may ask, does Nature hold in check all undue increase? It is immediately evident that to answer this we shall have to make the survey of world-conditions cover many matters which at first, or on a superficial view, might have been thought quite irrelevant. In our

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