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 VIII. International economics and migration

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ECONOMICS AND MIGRATION 95 tendency to emigrate. Baron Keikichi Ishimoto’s research on the question of birth-control, of the imports and exports, and on the food and migration needs of Japan; the aspects of the whole situation for his country as indicated in the papers of Benedetto Croce; Dr Brownlee’s Lessons of the 1921 British Census; Charles Rist’s and Compére Morel’s review of the situation in France; Hahn and Merz’s discussion of the position of things in Germany; Pribram’s Popula- tion Survey of Austria; Sir Henry Rew’s discussion on the food-supplies for Great Britain, etc., show that the problem of population is—to use the words of Professor J. M. Keynes—mnot merely an economists problem, it will in the very “near future be the greatest of all political questions”; and the peoples in sparsely populated countries, like those mentioned a little while back, will do well to have regard thereto. In respect of such matters as have been discussed, we may add finally that Dr S. M. Shirokogoroff published lately in Shanghai a study of the question of the relation of population and environment under the title, Ethnical Unit and Mailien. His deductions are based upon studies of the peoples of north-eastern Asia. When increase of population exceeds the possi- bility of nourishment, he believes that the excess must perish, the only remedy being the control of natality by artificial, social, or other means. The controlling factors, he holds, are culture and territory, and the density of population is dependent on these. His general conclusion is that there will be a degenera- rjon, and ultimately an end, to the species of man. Without accepting Shirokogoroff’s conclusion, one of course sees that his research points to the necessity of a thoroughly systematic study of the whole question of the world’s future. It is a mysterious fact that, with the natural powers of human reproduction, Man numbers only 1950 millions, after the many xons that

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