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 VII. The migration of populations

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CHAPTER VII THE MIGRATION OF POPULATIONS THE considerations referred to at the close of the preceding chapter raise at once the question of the distribution of the human race over the earth’s surface; since to increase Man’s numbers greatly his territorial distribution must accord with the potential advantages of each region of that surface. They show, for instance, that to attain even to the population-density of gg-o per square mile, corresponding to East’s estimate, that 15 about 2-7 times that now existing as an average, vast progress has to be made in human affairs generally, while to attain to the highest limit, or over §-67 times the existing average density, the co-ordination of all Man’s activities will need to be very highly perfected. The great wastage directly and indirectly arising from every form of ruthless competition, which in part is a consequence of his existing distribution, will have to disappear in order to reach the limits in question. Human energies will have to be devoted, not to attain- ing efficiency in the making of engines of destruction in order to maintain substantially the present features of that distribution, but to correlated studies in the difficult social and economic problems that even now call for solution. Even to-day the social and economic aspects of Man’s rapid growth in certain parts of the world, and the necessity of some readjustment of his “scatter ” over its surface, constitute problems of great intrinsic difficulty. We have to face not only the situation as it is, but as it will be in the very near future. The first question "gy

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