PROPHETS OF DOOM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 April 1928, Page 2

PROPHETS OF DOOM

WORLD’S FOOD SUPPLIES t.sSL I'i i'Clf N i I'OII INCRSASIKG COPULATf ON ir m..;, i’\cvvii.i. urn oh - I’A I'Y \J in i'liitol Press A-.-:>• • j :iI lull i’.y i.'le-ti. lVlegrajiii- < oijyiiuht. Australian Press Association I.UNDuN. 11 :h A"i il. A terrifying picture of tin- human i-jt. e dying of starvation in the near futu■ i» is cnnjnied np in statistics published to f!nv. It is slated that the faith's population }iamet eased by 100.000.000'dui - ir:.; Hie ln- ; i 1> year-. ainl tin- |n<.f>l ■t-1 - ~| do, mi base i Ill'll' I all Ilia t i' ms hr.-l I y ia. ihe |>. ,s-.i) .ill i n-- .1 liii'i.MMii" populat ion ;u all il hllII i It ' 1 1 extent. secondly. 'll lln' ,i ' that 11 is' \a i ill- snitm i- i,l' I 1nm,,!,,- IS r- i lilt is 11ii111 < -• 1. K\< haling v.ai s famines ami pc-si i l.in -cs. it is |ilst a .. •: 1 1 t, r i.f • 1111 ; 1 1• ■ al it iina't ie ' - prove ! li’.t l"a t: l\ tin I 1111 A1 1 i crowd (lie whole plilliei within a. mensurable pi rioil. Although im-rease ol po| ill la t ion prnceeils far iiiui’i' : } i a,'. I v than I- ] n • • 111 la 11 V pi is- i lile, it A; 111 \ |-| Ilu ll - I I 'll'. Illtll UIS. limit of pi o. hut ion, ami that the ni-si--11; 1 i 1 1 1 - - ni' extending tile f. .1 producing areas arc praetieally exhait-tod. That is tlic '.:rio-i si.h of the picture. mi-: inili'.ii sii»k sir IIIIJA I lew. e\-l ti.vel limotit St; ■ t :si nia n. renssm higly as-erfs that l>> • • tasters of early st a i vat ion. who have based their i tili iilal ions m terms "t wi i cat 1 1 a\ c i \ i-i 1 1 " 'Ui ' I tin' tact that ITui fifths .rf the world's popnla! ion .h----pends "ti i.tlier I.inn's - l loud. licit.' president of tiie British Association d>- , iared that tiu'ie was practically no more land available tor wheat. y<" . within a. decade. 1)0.000,000 acres were added, and there have heeii further additions sini''. None c-t the vast wheat exporting countries, Canada, Inilcs. States. Argot'' ino. Australia. Ilussia. and India, ranking in this older, have ye' utilised all their land suitable tor cropping. .An American proles.sor. Kusscll Smith, contends that tin- I'nite.l Stales and Canada- are good tor an increase "i probably a- billion bushels per year, while the only limit to Siberia drought. Onlv 10 per cent, ot Australia's "are.i is utilised, while 92 per ecu:, of Chile is not utilised. If it came to a pinch. Sir Henry Ib-w says, mankind would purify the tropics of deadly fevers, cleat the jungle lor wheat cnit;vation. and irrigate the whole of The i i.nlinent of Australia before it would -it down to starve.