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:: 1823562132

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217461

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Sander, Fritz http://d-nb.info/gnd/140473750

Title:: Allgemeine Gesellschaftslehre

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Verlag von Gustav Fischer

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XVI, 572 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VIII. Kapitel. Andere Besonderheiten der Vergesellschaftungs-Werbungs-Seelenaugenblicke und der Vergesellschaftungs-Seelenaugenblicke

Collection:: Economics Books

74 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE that even the insect-world can menace him. Observa- tion has shown that this menace can develop upon a colossal scale. It is too soon to say whether he will be able to meet this source of trouble or will be overcome thereby. That is the problem for the economic entomologist. Already situations of difficulty have occasionally developed from insect invasions. Will a redistribution of densities of populations in any way alleviate this? If it will, then the migration question takes a place of still greater importance. As already indicated, the magnitude of recent rates of population-increase has been brought about by Man’s inventive powers and by his accessions of knowledge. His ability to utilise the great resources of Nature, often previously undreamt of, has been enhanced in a very extraordinary way. He has learnt, to some extent, to avoid the incidence of her evil inflictions. To a remarkable extent this has been brought about by his migrations from one region to another. He has learnt of the possibilities of new advances and of new dangers, and in facing the menaces that characterised the regions to which he wandered he has acquired knowledge of general value for human increase. En passant we may remark that such facts as he has learnt by these experiences show us that the exact dates at which we shall reach given population-numbers cannot be predicted with any precision. One aspect of the migration question, which informs us of its great importance at the present time, is that certain consequences arise from population-expansions themselves. It has already been noted that some agricultural countries grow more than is needed for their own food-supplies. Such a condition immedi- ately admits of other countries expanding industrially, increasing their numbers and their political power. Increases of material wealth and man-power in the case

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