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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HOW POPULATION INCREASES 61 that of Germany afford notable examples of changes in the direction of more intense industrial development. It has to be borne in mind, however, that the attempt to support industries by high protective tariffs, without an equally self-denying ordinance being applied in the case of labourers engaged in secondary industries, tends to react in such a way that the conditions will not necessarily develop that are required to ensure a large population for the country in question. Though the part played in a country’s development of population by its measure of industrial advance is of very great importance, there are certain things to be borne in mind. The world, as at present organised, is apt to mislead as to its population possibilities, unless due account be taken of those just referred to. As pointed out by Sir Henry Rew, in his estimate in 1912 of the food-production of the United Kingdom, and by Prof. E. M. East of Harvard, in 1923, in Mankind at the Cross-roads, many countries do not themselves supply directly their own food-require- ments by agriculture. The United Kingdom was estimated to produce only about 41 per cent. of its needs thus directly. According to Sir Henry Rew, in acres per head, the position of things was as follows: — Date. Farm area. Under plough. Wheat. Cattle per head. Year 1871 . .. 118 O71 014 0°20 Year 1gix . . 079 036 005 017 The situation existing was really what has already been stated, viz., that populations with great secondary industrial and similar developments purchase from outside countries much of their required foods, etc., with the products of their secondary industries. Hence, in any endeavour to estimate possible populations, it is but little use comparing merely areas. Switzerland, for example, produces 32:4 bushels per acre, but her cereals and food-crops together cover only 4 per cent.

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