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 XI. Conclusions as to population increase

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CONCLUSIONS AS TO POPULATION INCREASE 119 ing trouble. With the collisions of interest that are now in existence, the future looks not merely threaten- ing but very ominous indeed. If that future is to be better than appears, it will depend largely upon the attitude of its inhabitants to the era that is dawning. The matter even of its growth in numbers is truly momentous, and, with its assertive and unscrupulous greeds, is no less alarming to any one who has any vision, and who realises to what past history is pointing. The frightful indifference to ghastly miseries and unspeakable sufferings which made the last war possible, reveal the spirit which is governing so large a part of mankind even now. That spirit is a limiting factor to the growth of the human race and to material and spiritual advances in its future. Virtually we are told it will never change ; if that be true, then the Shadow of the Future will be very dark. The World’s Future is, then, the problem of problems. That we should at once face it, is revealed by the fact that the rapidity of the increases in population- numbers is already threatening us with apparently almost insoluble difficulties: we are rapidly approach- ing numbers that make the problem a stupendous, aye, even an appalling, one. At the present time one country, at least, must make provision for the emigra- tion of some of its inhabitants. We may elect to ignore these matters, but if we do we only accentuate our future difficulties. It is here that we see that the way of humility is needed, for the ablest are intellectually incompetent, and the noblest fall short of the splendour of purpose, demanded for its solution. Anyone who has read Dean Inge’s England (Benn, 1926) attentively will realise something of the magni- tude, not merely of England’s problems, but those of the world. His epilogue sums up the situation. The issues for all great nations do not differ materially. What Dean Inge has to say, in his most able review

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