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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THE MIGRATION OF POPULATIONS 83 involve difficulties in attaining to the densest possible population, the best distribution and the most suit- able forms of activity are not easily ascértained. They are obscured by the existence of various conflicting interests, and are by no means easy to analyse com- pletely. The different peoples of the earth cannot be regarded as immediately available for any admixture on a large scale, even if the language and political difficulties did not exist. What are known too as “ vested interests 7 greatly intensify other difficulties. The complexity of human interests is very great, but they must be adequately taken into account when considering even the migration question. At the risk of seeming to be leaving somewhat the matter immediately under review, we note some of the issues that influence peoples, when the consequences of certain policies are considered. In earlier times monarchs counted their subjects and estimated their resources, not always to organise them better for their own good, but in order sometimes to judge of the probability of success in thought-of schemes of war and plunder. To-day such action has by no means really quite vanished; rather, it may be said, often it has only been masked. Monarchs have been more or less replaced by other agencies which really govern peoples. And it may be said that nominal govern- ments may easily be more or less unaware of the opera- tions of the groups of personalities who—usually in more or less direct association—are actually giving direction to, or even controlling, the issues. The operations of these are of course not made patent, and the ethical impulses, awakened in order to justify any developments, are often of an order quite different from those which are really in action as fundamental causes. Such matters as these must necessarily be taken into one’s purview in all studies of the characteristics of human relationships. We have to bear in mind that

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