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 XII. Epilogue

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126 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE future movements will be, nor what part Man is to play in the world-future. Thinking men have at last, however, apparently reached more sanity in their estimate of their place in Nature, and in regard to their status as denizens of the earth, than characterised them in the past. The ablest of them, endowed with intellectual powers of a high order and endowed also with imaginations of some reach, with the genius of invention, and with the ability to create — within limits — new world- situations, are able to envisage to some extent the problems of their own future. But the ordinary demands of life are pressing, and one is apt to forget those issues, at least, that are dated to arrive later than the immediate future. To those who have vision, however, comes the call of duty, viz., that of shaping the interests of their country and of the world in respect of the tremendous problems that loom large in the future life of humanity. But Man lives not only in a physical but also in a psychic atmosphere, created by the mass around him. He can no more escape this than it can escape him. And if the mass fail to react to great issues when they are revealed, it is merely so much evidence that Nature has a different end in view from that which presents itself to his mind. In August and September 1927, a well-attended international conference met in Geneva, under the presidency of Sir Bernard Mallet, to discuss the prob- lem of the world’s future in respect of population. This, at any rate, discloses that experts have awakened to the fact that all is not well with the world in respect of its inhabitants, and their future. It is a hopeful sign. But there is no adequate world-reaction yet to this important movement. It may be the beginning of the solution of some of the greater difficulties of the world’s future, but if it is to achieve that measure of

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