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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120 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE of the problems pressing upon the British nation for solution, reveals, either directly or incidentally, what the world situation is. It discloses also how enor- mous the work to be done is if, with an ignorant and selfish humanity, ill-consequences are to be minimised. Humanity has both to be instructed and governed. Naturally enough the situation appears to be well- nigh hopeless, not because it is essentially insoluble, not because it is beyond the reach of the intelligent, but because humanity is mentally and morally what it is at the present time. Nevertheless, the World’ Future calls for consideration by all who are not wholly wrapped in the garment of utter indifference, for the auspices are not favourable, and the population- pressures, so rapidly developing, are inescapable. When one thinks of the periods which have been necessary for the development of all the highly civilised peoples among mankind, and of the crude stages only now reached by the backward peoples, it would seem that no possible effort during the remaining three- fourths of the present century can materially alter the conditions existing, at any rate for the greater portion of the human race. The complexity of modern life with the more advanced nations, the range and excellence of their comforts, the elaboration of their methods, of their customs and their enjoyments, the luxury and ostentation of their appointments, the enormous expenditures of money, or its equivalent in labour, of those who control the social and political world, all imply an accentuation of the elements of human nature which constitute the main promptings of modern Man. It is these things that make the future difficult. When one knows something of the world’s surface and of its peoples, and finds it possible for a country like Switzerland to carry a population of 247 to the square mile, while a country like the United States of

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