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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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. How population increases

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60 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE regions, a knowledge of methods of combating yellow- fever, sleeping sickness, hookworm, malaria, filariasis, etc., have made it possible to live fairly safely in almost any region. When, therefore, backward peoples advance, or when they are replaced by more capable and sturdy races, who know how to live in, and how to deal with the territories they occupy, and who, moreover, are in earnest about the general purposes of life, then the countries in which they dwell will be greatly improved, and will as a consequence carry many more people to the square mile. The data do not exist for evaluations of these possibilities in detail for given countries and with any given standards-of- living: for this reason any practical estimates have also to be based upon general considerations. Initially all countries depend upon primary pro- ductions, and rely upon the exchange of their com- modities, etc., for such secondary productions as they need. Primary production, however, in general, does not lead to dense populations, and it leaves a people largely at the mercy of others in respect of political control, and of the conditions of trade and commerce. It is not too much to say that, when one has regard to the risks of armed conflict, it is also evident that it leaves a people subject to the risk of national ruin. The significance of this matter was ably dealt with, as far back as 1841, by Friedrich List in his Das nationale System der politischen Ockonomie. It is because of the limitations and dangers of a dependence solely upon primary productions, that as nations advance they find themselves compelled more and more to become self-supporting, and therefore to promote secondary industries. This in its turn tends greatly to increase the population they can support, provided outlets for their manufactured goods, in return for the raw supplies needed, are found. In recent times the economic history of the United States of America and

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