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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Title:: Chapter VI. Population as affected by various conditions

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71 all the uninhabitable areas of the globe, as well as all that is required for his civilised occupancy. This, of course, may well raise a doubt as to'whether it can ever be attained, for it involves a perfecting of human knowledge, of human organisation, and of human character, which transcends all our ordinary concep- tions of real possibilities. Existing national egoisms at present make it an impossible estimate. The world-averages of the population-densities cor- responding to the four last-mentioned estimates of possible population are:— POPULATION For 5200 millions, 99-0, sensibly the population- density for the Feudatory Independent States, [ndia, viz., 101-2; or of the Philippine Islands, viz., 99-1. 7ozo millions, 1337, the population-density for Bulgaria being 1377, Jugo-Slavia 125-0, and Rumania 142-2. gooo millions, 1714, the density for Portugal being 170-0. 11,000 millions, 209-6, the density for Austria being 201-9, for Hungary 233-0, for British India 225-7. For The world-averages above indicated are an enormous ncrease on the present world-ayerage of 37, and it is to be observed that it is not possible to distribute human beings at all uniformly upon an earth with so diversified a physical surface, and a surface, too, whose population-carrying power varies so greatly. It is obvious therefore that the density of great areas must be immensely increased, and doubtless some increase would have to occur everywhere. The considerations submitted clearly show that the numbers of human beings which the world-surface can carry is limited to a relatively small multiple of the existing population.

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