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

Document type:: Monograph

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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iro THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE and assuredly it can create sympathetic touch inter- nationally. "The opponents of this view are those who see in human limitations and ignorance greater possi- bilities for exploitation in the interests of unscrupulous competitions. As we have seen to our cost, the future of unfriendliness is fraught with appalling dangers to the whole of humanity, and may even mean the blotting out of human civilisation. An international review of all the greater questions affecting mankind seems to be now a sine gua non; must it not take into account the migration and settlement possibilities of the earth, and the adjustment of the normal rights—if there are such rights—of races and nations? And will not such adjustments of mutual rights include the questions of the possibilities of food- supplies and the conditions of mutual well-being of the peoples of the whole world ? In order that the New Malthusianism may be of the greatest service, at least all the greater peoples of the earth must react to its demands. Yet the task of securing human interest generally seems to be one of hopeless magnitude. How is the task to be faced, and what elements in it are most pressing? Answers are not easy. Ultimately the education of the peasants of Russia, of the millions of India and China, and of the similar grades in the other parts of the world, is involved. It is true, of course, that this may operate in two ways. Better agricultural methods in Russia would enormously increase the supply of cereals and food-stuffs generally. This would tend to increase numbers. Ultimately, but by no means at once, the effect would be to so raise the standard-of-living as to reduce the rapidity of the increase of density. Analpha- betas cannot make as effective a use of a country as people of appropriate education; and there are to-day enormous numbers of analphabetas in the world, and it is verv difficult to help them effectively. Readers of

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