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 IV. The world's cereal and food-corps and its mineral needs

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THE WORLD’S CEREAL AND FOOD-CROPS 45 ominous, to anyone who considers to what they point for the world’s future. From the use per capita of the metals, etc., this will at once be realised, if we remember to what numbers the population itself will attain, should the rate of increase of the recent past continue even for a very limited number of decades, not centuries. This is why a review of the world’s recent growth in numbers is a desideratum. We shall recur to this matter later. Many countries are coming to recognise not only that future agricultural needs are calling for systematic examination, but also that their future supplies of timber are also calling for similar attention. The features of modern life have intensified the demand for this commodity. This, and carelessness in the past, have made reafforestation an urgent necessity. Well- organised schemes for minimising the danger of forest- fires, and of avoiding the colossal losses that occur through them, are being developed. Constructional substitutes for timber have been invented, and in the future metal and cement structures will minimise the use of wood. These things help human increase. Nevertheless, the possible expansion-rates of human populations outrange all possible developments in this direction. It ought not to be forgotten, on the other hand, that the forestal areas may have to be encroached upon, in order to increase the arable areas devoted to the growth of food-stuffs. ‘The forestal areas are at present very considerable, but they cannot be very largely encroached upon if supplies of timber are to be maintained on the scale, per capita, now characteristic of world-usage. When we realise that our usage of the world’s surface can without doubt be greatly improved upon, we are brought face to face with the fact that we have an urge to elaborate the scheme of our whole life. And not merely to elaborate it. We are reckless with the

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