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

Document type:: Monograph

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

Collection:: Economics Books

128 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE These are the questions which human history is, in some measure, about to answer. The human being may, of course, have issues to face soon, which to-day are absolutely hidden. These he must perforce meet as they arise: It is well that to these should not be superadded those which are not hidden. For this, and many other reasons, everyone with an interest in our race will view with pleasure all efforts to lift the shadow which is looming darkly in respect of Man’s future. The widespread recognition of the developing solidarity of our race is an omen of promise. But, at present, it is specially characteristic of public men of exceptional eminence only. It is not yet a pervasive faith with the masses of mankind. The readiness with which antagonistic feeling arises between nations, and the intensities of national dis- likes, occasion forebodings which counter such appre- ciations of human solidarity as are growing. One can only hope that concerted action, in the attempt to solve the problems arising from the menaces of human increase, will create centres of sympathetic interest. These problems involve for their solution the cordial co-operation of all. Economic equity, the abandon- ment of unscrupulous competitions, and the pro- motion of a world-concentration on the great issue, is the way of peace. It may lead mankind in the end to discover that their world has, like Chamisso’s Peter Schlemibl, lost its shadow. So mote it be.

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