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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16 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE Thus unquestionably no inconsiderable portion of human effort goes into the development of “luxury”; and not unfrequently this portion could have gone into the development of a larger amount of food and into the maintenance of more offspring. Man has also greatly lengthened his life by better national and individual hygiene. This affects his economic power and efficiency, and perhaps also his possible reproductive efficiency. As soon as the existing facts of man’s increase in numbers are viewed in their proper perspective in the picture of man’s earth-life, the significance of them for man’s future becomes, as above said, vividly apparent. The problems of that future loom large and seem gravely impressive, and this question of the future is not a mere academic one, nor is it one of small practical moment. Already it is influencing the national policy of peoples who are governed or in- fuenced by a class capable of being affected by looking into the future, and considering its probabilities. There are already a number of territories so peopled that they can no longer provide directly, by existing methods, the food-supplies needed by their inhabitants. They have become, as things are, dependent upon resources obtained from other territories through the exchange of their commodities not directly supporting life, for those which do. They are thus immediately affected by the developments, and by their attitude to them, of the people of such other territories, and by their productions. In this connection it is to be observed that, with the world’s growing population, food-production difficulties are already coming into evidence. Migration questions are also arising, and the significance of racial, linguistic, social and economic differences is already impressing itself upon thought- ful citizens. Even as regards language manifest diffi- culties are arising in the modern world. For instance,

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