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 I. The Outlook

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THE OUTLOOK self-destruction have been evoked from time to time, $0 as virtually to annihilate successive, civilisations. Or again, it is not improbable that various kinds of diseases and plagues have acquired from time to time a viru- lence which he could not withstand. The modern history of epidemics indicates that their fluctuations are very extraordinary, and it is not unlikely that in prehistoric days the human being was less efficient in spontaneously developing protective reactions against a menacing environment. That he had large animals among his living enemies is evident from their remains; but the nature of his struggle with them can hardly be conjectured. To-day, however, they have practically disappeared, and the total loss from venomous rep- tiles, or ferocious animals, is relatively small. What he suffered from insects we have no idea, and it may be added that entomologists are by no means certain that in the future Man has nought to fear from his smaller enemies. Further, it is by no means impossible that there have been cosmic disasters of which neither historical accounts, nor geological nor astronomical evidences remain. From facts that have come to hand through developments in astronomy and astrophysics, leading to the great surveys now being made of the solar system and of the stellar universe, these can be readily visualised. The present intense activity of the solar surface, and the changes that are taking place thereon, have been studied for only a few decades. It is be. coming increasingly evident that climatological changes on the earth are largely due to physical alterations in the sun, and to variations in the energy radiated from its surface. It is likely that all manifestations of life are correlated with the energies received from the centre of our solar system, but so far we do not know whether Man’s actual power to increase his numbers is wholly dependent upon great meteorological factors [3

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