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

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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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Title:: Chapter XI. Conclusions as to population increase

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122 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE standards of living, or both combined, is perilously near. Within periods of time, insignificant compared with geologic ages, the multiplying force of living things, man included, must receive a tremendous check.” And we went on to add the following :— “The present rate of increase in the world’s popula- tion cannot continue. . . . The extraordinary increase in the standard of living, which has characterised the last few decades, must quickly be brought to a stand- stil, or be determined by the destructive forces of human extravagance. Very soon the world-politic will have to face the question, whether it is better that there should be larger numbers and more modest living, or fewer numbers and lavish living; whether world-morality should aim at the enjoyment of life by a great multitude, or aim at the restriction of life- experience to a few, that they may live in relative opulence.” 1 We pointed out that the student of the future would “ utilise all discovery of the mysterious play, and no less cryptic limitation, of life-force to make prediction sure.” And further that with “co-ordinated inter- national effort, there would be no difficulty in so directing future statistical technique” that a more perfect study could be made of the drift of mankind “in the more important relations of civic, national, and international life ” (p. 454). Certainly, in so far as Man is ignorant he is both the puppet of fortune and the victim of desire. He knows but little of the driving forces in the world of life. He sees but the surface of things and his science is far from being a perfectly co-ordinated system of concepts, representing the world as he beholds it. Report of Census, 1911, Appendix A, Vol. I, P- 453.

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