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 VI. Population as affected by various conditions

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68 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE in the forms of agriculture necessary for the production of all forms of food and clothing supplies, would have to be properly correlated and co-ordinated. It is self- evident that it is only in this way that the highest possible measure of efficiency can be reached. Thus the numbers concerned in mere distributing should always be the minimum requisite. This, of course, implies a very highly developed organisation of human effort, and one which minimises as far as possible the limiting effects of national egoisms. Industrial and agricultural production should also be so co-ordinated that the highest food-producing efficiency can be attained. For ordinary industrial purposes aggrega- tion is necessary, the necessities of the case frequently involving the use of land which otherwise could be of agricultural service. We thus see that even with a perfect industrial, distributing and agricultural organ- isation there is no possibility of using the entire earth’s available surface for the production of food-stuffs. The allowance for rocky, for mountainous, desert and cold regions, for woods and forests, for roads and railways, for factory and residence purposes, will reduce the 52-5 million square miles to the order of one-half, say to 26-25 million square miles or 16,800 million acres. If it be ultimately possible that only two acres. will have to be provided per person, which is equivalent to a square of slightly over 295 feet side, the maximum population for the earth would be only 8400 millions. Or yet again, the actual arable land in Japan proper is, as already said, only 27,155 square miles out of 147,650; say, roughly, 18-4 per cent. Its population is considerable, and its standard of living so simple that the possibilities of using the land agriculturally may be taken as very near to that of the possible maximum for that country. For the world, as we have seen, it is somewhat under 10-0 per cent. For the United States, though by no means for the whole of North

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