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 VII. The migration of populations

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THE MIGRATION OF POPULATIONS 75 of any countries are, however, a source of danger to others in a world where wealth and power are regarded as supreme desiderata; for they confer advantages in the arbitrament of war, should it be resorted to. This, one is compelled to recognise, is a limiting factor, so long as the principle of nationality governs the human race and divides the interests of the world’s populations. Thus it is important for certain countries to add to their possible “ natural ” increase a further increase by immigration. A notable example is Australia, at the present time, with its average density of about two per square mile. The necessity for emigration and birth-control arises in the following way. Whenever a country develops its agriculture and its industries to the uttermost, and still finds its population increasing beyond the carrying-capacity of its territory, it is immediately faced with two alternatives. Either its excess of population must emigrate, or the excess must be made to vanish by birth-control. The latter is but a partial remedy. It runs counter to natural tendencies. There is no doubt, however, that the more rapidly a people multiply the sooner must come the appropriate measures of birth-control, which with civilised peoples are, in some form or another, always operative. As soon as, in any country, the condition of rela- tively dense population, or over-population, arrives, the impulse to emigrate therefrom is stimulated, and countries whose population-carrying capacity is un- exhausted tend to be invaded, the tendency—other things being equal—being measured by the differ- ence between their potential and actual populations. i If we denote the greatest population a country can carry by 2, and ts actual population by p, then the measure of the immigration- potential is a function of the quantity (P—p)/P. The function, how- ever, is not a simple one.

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