WORLD'S RESOURCES.
INCREASED POPULATION. THE ECONOMIC ASPECT. A- and N.Z. SYDNEY. Aug. 31. At the pan-Pacific Science Congress during a general discussion on the economic resources of tho world, Professor Nevin M. Fenneman, member of. the American National Research Council, said the great. est economic fact of the nineteenth century was the increase in tho world's population. If the world had reached a point at which it was mostly full it was of enormous significance. Economically and in every other way there were future possibilities in science, but they were something of a gamble. It would be a matter of only a few centuries when a large number of the resources on which we counted for present '. civilisation would bo things of the past. If we continued to use coal at the present rate of supply it would probably last less than 3000 years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18494, 3 September 1923, Page 7
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