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

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Title:: Chapter III. Man's agricultural, forestal and animal needs

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MAN’S AGRICULTURAL NEEDS 33 has thrown upon the question of possible future im- provements, we note that an analysis has been made by Mr O. E. Baker, the agricultural ecenomist of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the United States. This analysis is based largely on the Census results of 1920. And though agricultural production in the United States is believed in certain respects to be efficient, it is said that it is no longer keeping pace with the increasing population. The per capita peak was reached about 1906-07, a fact of great and obvious significance. Baker’s important estimate of the present and future possible developments may be clearly shown in the following tabulated form, in which the figures denote millions of acres, and which form purports to show the ultimate possibilities in contrast with the facts existing in 1920: — Lands as existing in 1920. And as they may become ultimately. Per cent. Highly improved lands . 503 may become as much as 8oo 42-04 Forest cut-over and burnt lands . . . . 465 may be reduced to Unimproved pasture lands 863 may be reduced to Non-agricultural land . 72 may be increased to Total, in million acres . 1903 The changes indicated can be made by irrigation, drainage, clearing, reducing the forest and desert lands to a minimum amount, making mere pasture- and range- land also a minimum, but allowing for an increase in the areas for cities and villages, for public roads and railways, etc. ‘The whole matter is outlined in “A Graphic Summary of American Agriculture,” see }ear Book, 1921, pp. 407 ét seq., and has apparently been carefully considered. The importance of these particular estimates depends upon the fact that the interests of agriculture have been quite specially promoted in America, and that

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