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:: 883877538

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-7132

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Hansen, Fritz

Title:: Großhandel und Industrie optisch-photographischer Bedarfsartikel

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Hobbing

Year of publication:: 1918

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (32 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VI. Die Lage während des Krieges

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92 THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD'S FUTURE realise that in the nature of the case effective occupa- tion is the only safeguard ultimately of their rights. Dense and expanding populations will be compelled, whether they will or no, to challenge cases of ineffective occupation, and that will be one of the great problems of the very near future. It is a problem that certainly deeply concerns peoples whose countries exhibit very small population-density, more especially when they are countries capable of carrying much greater numbers. A refusal to face a question of this kind is not only fatuous; it is also morally reprehensible in the last degree. And it is not too much to say that such refusal may be the presage of doom. We do well, of course, to bear in mind that people of our own race and nationality not only have a first claim to consideration because their language is the same, and their ideals, traditions, social habits are akin, but also for the reason that those who wish to emigrate from their own lands, if adults, are often not the most eminently desirable. This, however, hardly applies to the younger folk, and for this reason they constitute usually the most desirable among those who wish to migrate. Hence the importance of such a migration as has been called the “little brother ” movement. We are not, however, here dealing with the grounds for preferences for par- ticular classes of migrants. We revert to the general Juestion. What has been said above reminds us that behind any serious study of the population problem lies a question of ethics. It is this: — When sensible differ- ences exist between the actual and the possible popula- tions of given countries, what principle is to guide world-politics in regard to the situation thus existing? »’ There are, it would appear, at least four fundamental elements in this question, and they call for solutions. These elements are as follow, viz. :—

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