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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86 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE the populations she has carried. These have been due to the greater personal security reached, and to the improvements in irrigation, etc. We are perhaps apt to forget these benefits, when attention is focused upon limitations. As a matter of fact material benefits have been conferred by such migrations as those from West to East. It should perhaps be added that clashes of interests between peoples are inescapable howsoever they are organised. The practical problem is “how to minimise them,” not “how they can be completely eliminated.” All forms of civilisation have their defects. This is a matter, however, which is outside the limits of the question we are discussing. In connection with what has been said above, it is appropriate to observe that the cost of preparedness to attack, or to defend, has no intrinsic limit. The cost is an ever-increasing one and becomes appalling. Its essential character tends to render it provocative. Moreover history shows that, for the purposes of war, a people will spend unhesitatingly amounts which they would not merely grudge, but would actually refuse, for the promotion of the arts of peace and for beneficent ends. The colossal expenditures in preparing for war, and also in war itself, would be far more than adequate for all the higher efforts of mankind. War 1s an uneconomic way of deciding issues, and it must either cease or be more terrible than ever before. The studies of racial characteristics, of the possibilities of beneficent human intercourse, of the problems of miscegenation, of a better personal, communal, national and international hygiene, of eliminating or ameliorat- ing the more terrible diseases and scourges of mankind, of international economics, and of international re- lations generally, would all become financially possible were war assuredly obsolete. All these things, though of the highest importance and incalculable value to mankind, are allowed to remain relatively in abeyance,

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