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 87 that Man may prepare more elaborate and terrible engines of destruction, with which one people may sonfound other peoples and impose its*will upon them. To revert now more directly to the part that the migration of populations can play in bettering the world’s future and making it possible to carry a larger number. It is evident, from the issues just referred to, that the question is complicated by the divided interests of the human race, and by the limitations involved in the egoistic view which is characteristic, not merely of individuals, but also of communities and nations. Some matters present themselves for con- sideration with pertinent insistence, notwithstanding the difficulties which have been mentioned. The inevitable troubles of the human race arising from the necessity of its meeting its needs, if possible, indicate quite clearly that peoples will have to consider the migration question whether they will or no; and they will be well advised if this is done with the world- facts before them, and not from a narrow standpoint. There can be no evading of the real question, viz., that world-conditions are such that the rights of all peoples will have to be equitably considered, if the world desires peace. This involves the full considera- tion of the admixture of peoples who have attained to very different degrees of culture or civilisation, and it is full of difficulty. It has lately been pointed out by the Very Rev. Dean Inge that it is possible for immigration to have a very bad effect on the development of a people,! and that in certain cases it may be “ politically and racially wise ” to prevent it. The unrestricted influx into a country of low-grade citizens from other countries will almost invariably tend to diminish the total possible aggregate of the populations of the countries concerned. No country whatever should be ready to L Scientific Ethics, 1927, Norman Lockyer Lecture, pp. 14, 15.

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