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 XI. Conclusions as to population increase

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CONCLUSIONS AS TO POPULATION INCREASE 117 that thorough and sympathetic studies of those things in international life which reveal that Man is subject to moral law will have to be undertaken. (Is there any real expression of such law in the inter-relations of mankind?) Moreover, the financial and economic systems, and the different productivities of the various peoples of the earth will have to be co-ordinated with the greatest possible equity and goodwill. This limit of 7800 millions will be passed only with the greatest difficulty and probably very slowly. It is, however, quite possible that still further increase can take place, to the order of say five times the present population, viz., to 9750 millions, and ultimately it might reach even six times, say 11,700 millions. It seems certain that, under any conditions whatsoever, the numbers of the human race can never surpass this. Even to attain to 9750 millions, the perfection of all human organisation would have to be so high on the moral as well as on the physical plane, that it is very difficult even to imagine how this can transpire in the limits of time which are probably available. The history of the human race appears to indicate that only very slow changes, if any at all, in the fundamental elements of Man’s character are possible. Unless the changes arrive through intelligent reproductive controls, taking every advantage of appropriate methods of repro- duction, it would seem unlikely that the 7800 limit will ever be passed. Although the history of Japan has been a revelation of how rapidly a people, with devoted and mentally capable leaders, may develop in a particular direction, viz., in that which has characterised Western civilisation, and although the rapid rise of various other peoples has been almost equally surprising, there is no doubt that, to attain to a high population-density, the prevailing aims of human lives will have to be less concerned with complications in the mere standard-of-living. A

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