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 X. New malthusianism and man's future

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NEW MALTHUSIANISM III the monthly review of the league of the Red Cross Societies, known as The World's Health, will appreciate the difficulty and also the possibility of helping the illiterates among mankind to attain to the necessary knowledge for their own and their children’s better- ment. On the other hand, Prof. Laky’s study of intellectual culture in Hungary shows how very diffi- cult effective work will be for many years to come.? The scourges of mankind can be greatly checked by intelligent popular response to suitable official action. Tuberculosis is on the decrease, and the action of such remedial agents as solar rays, ultra-violet light, and heat are making the outlook generally more hopeful. Venereal diseases are yielding, and the popular atti- tude thereto is more satisfactory. The overcoming of thyroid troubles, the prevention of diseases arising from malnutrition, the prevention of scoliosis by attention to school-conditions, a better psychological guidance in the matter of education, and similar things, are securing better originating conditions for the rising generations in many lands. Infantile life is being greatly helped, and in many countries the infantile death-rate has fallen in a remarkable way. So extra- ordinary has been progress in these directions that a world-conscience in regard to them is being developed, and already men are raising their ideals as to the proper normal demand for attention thereto. International conferences and correspondence between persons deeply interested in matters affecting these, and in similar questions touching the evolving of movements for the good of mankind, are among the things that tend to create the new order of things, an order which, one may hope, will make international adjustments of relations possible. These. too. are essential to such a 1 « Etude sur le développement de la culture intellectuelle en Hongrie dans les temps récents” Désiré Laky, Revue d. J. Soc. Hongroise d. Szat., 1926, Nos. 1-2, pp. 1—~60.

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