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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78 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE lead to larger and more dense aggregations, and by the sheer influence of numbers, one which can often express itself in the field of politics and otherwise for its own immediate advantage. Such aggregations tend to increase in size, and to attract individuals of certain types of mind and character. This would appear to be inevitable. Ultimately these tendencies frequently produce sharp collisions of interest between the scattered agricultural populations and the dense industrial and commercial ones. The political power of the latter aggregates, especially in so-called demo- cratic communities, tends also to accentuate the diversity by the obtaining of greater privileges and advantages in many ways as compared with the agri- cultural aggregates. Often, for example, this is ex- pressed by high tariffs, which, as between the two classes, are by no means equitable. Operating continuously, and over extended periods of time, factors such as have been mentioned, and similar ones, create a distinct heterogeneity, out of what initially were homogeneous groups of people. As a consequence the world now exhibits great diversities of population-density, even where the language and social ideals are, or were, either identical or very similar, and these are not always referable to physical diversities. ‘The world-situation in respect of these matters is by no means a simple one, or one easy of betterment. Owing to the multiplying power of the human race, the world-populations are already threatened with the difficulties of an adequate provision of food-stuffs, and with the cost and labour of transporting them to the places where they are needed. The question consequently arises, “ How shall the population-carry- ing power be increased without accentuating exist- ing difficulties?” While obviously migration can help, the conditions governing migration are by no

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