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

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter X. New malthusianism and man's future

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NEW MALTHUSIANISM 105 and that great wisdom and insight are needed to attain to satisfactory adjustments. . Although the large and relatively unoccupied spaces in Asia, Africa, South America and Australia could perhaps be used, for some little time, to meet shortages in the food-supplies, the existing rate of increase will soon exhaust these, and it is not to be forgotten that many countries are NOt even Now able to meet their own requirements by means of such agriculture as they can possibly develop, a feature which has already been considered. The food-supply and bther supplies necessary to maintain whatever state of civilisation is adhered to, and the finding of profitable occupation for human beings, mean that there will always be a pressure against unrestricted increase. The form which the newer Malthusianism endeavours to take account of, is the necessary adjustment to the complex of modern conditions. It endeavours, also, to formulate ideas as to the nature of the problem which urgently needs solution, if the human race is in any way to minimise the evils which are now threatening. When we remember that throughout the world, enterprising men, driven by the spirit of world-com- petitions, are considering the futures of their activities, are asking, “ What will be the needs of the industries upon which they depend?” and “ What opportunities still exist for further profitable activity ? ”—we see that these questions involve a wide outlook and an interest in other peoples’ countries and conditions, if they are to be answered satisfactorily. In this connection has arisen a matter that has given pause to all economic thinkers with vision. ‘This is what has been called the “ anonymity of capital.” The fact that the uses and applications of capital are not associated with particular persons, nor are they collateral with particular nation- ality, has also shown that the economic organisation of the world is, at present, very unsatisfactory. This was

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