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 V. How population increases

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HOW POPULATION INCREASES 59 forming to the principle just stated in (iv) of the factors above. Touching the matters referred to in (v) and (vi), doubtless better personal hygiene will tend to make a population more efficient, and this also will indirectly tend to bring about more favourable economic conditions. In this connection may be mentioned the recent uprising of the idea of “con- structive birth-control,” advocated by Dr Marie C. Stopes, Mrs Sanger, and others, and in many countries in Europe. The aim of this is to avoid reproduction, when undesired, with a view to ensuring that the conditions surrounding reproduction shall be more adequately considered, and practically attended to. Reproduction, under better conditions than those at present prevailing, will also tend to increase human efficiency, and will improve the human race probably in every way. On the other hand, however, any widen- ing of the knowledge of contraceptive technique will probably tend to somewhat limit reproduction, at least of the worse kind. Statistical evidence does not yet exist as to the ultimate effect of this movement, hence at present its consequences have to be inferred from general considerations. The importance of attention to constructive birth-control is obvious from such evidence as is given in Dr F. G. Crookshank’s The Mongol in our Midst, 1925, and also in various studies of the consequences of reproduction from degenerate human beings. A review of the surface-conditions of various countries shows that many could carry probably much greater populations than they do at the present time, and some could certainly carry very much greater populations, ¢.g., Russia-in-Asia, the northern part of Asia generally, Persia, Irak, etc., a considerable part of Africa, Canada, Central and South America, Brazil, the Argentine, etc, Australia and New Guinea. Recent advances in hygiene for cold and tropical

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