PUSHED OFF THE EARTH

Patea Mail, Volume XLIII, 26 February 1919, Page 4

PUSHED OFF THE EARTH

WHEN THE GLOBE IS FULL

Tim time " ill inc.'i-tably conic .when the ear.h "'ill be lull to overflowing. Six centuries mom, so.tbo statisticians calcula-e. and there will he only onacre of land for every dweller on tits earth. And the rime will come, we arc told, when diei'e will be only rv aqua.c yard for each person ! At present there are, as nearly as caw be estimated, 1,623,<H.’>0.1K)0 peonle living on the earth. As dm laud area i-. oil mill!' us square miles, iltere are, on the average, more*'than twenty acres for Kelt permit .. Of every 1,(100 pe : sons living there an' 555 in Aha, 2!5 in Europe, 100 in Africa, 95 in America, and five m Oceania. Thus, more Vhan half the world's population a'e Arcade and uo.rl.v a quarter European, while' oiic-tco - -■ live in Africa, tnd nearly as many in America. ONE MILE-1171 Peonle Br.'t at presen,;, the population is unevenly distributed. Thus, in A-ic. which has nearly oue-diird of linear It’s laud surface, there w one inhabitant every ill aero;; in Europe, which co.i'iains only ; ne-fourtccn'di of the wh ,h area, there is 1 to every 7 acres, in Africa, 1 to 1 1 ; i ud in America, 1 to 7 b , while on the entire earth there are on’y 111 persons to each square mile. Before. Ihe war Belgium war 'die mO;-i ihickl.v-pcpulalcd country on the eni Ui with GSS inhabitants to each squnc mile, or mure than one to each acne A good second was Holland, with 40.persons for each square mile. In.die United Kingdom.and Germany the numbers are bi t ana 111 1 : and .Japan makes a goadyhow with 35G (e each quaiv mile. In ('lima; wth i: v 40(1.000,Oil!) people, there are every scuiare mih*; and in India 158. For every square mile of Pern thereore oidv 5 inhahi'Oiiils; Venezuela nacinly fi.' Argentina U New Zealand I’, and .South Africa 13. ROOM TO SPARE In Canada’s 3,730,00'.) square miles liiere is ro-m fur tie- cutnv world’s pupula.tion, allowing nearly it acre- .'or each person. If Canada were only as thickly poptilatcd as tlq. British Isles it eo uhi accommodate 1,350,090,(19) roughly four out of live persons living on the earth no-day. Ai present ts jiopn las ion is only 7,250,900 or less then IW'> persons to each i-quare mile. Australia to-day has only apnru.xi matcly 5 intiabitmits for every 3 squat.' miles. If it wore f-s thickly popula-.e-i at the Uuiu'd Kingdom, in- would provide room for 1,150,000,01X1. Similarly. .South Alrica has accoui'da-'-ion and to spare for 170.000,000 more inhabitants, or more than four time the populat icn uf Franco. !N GOO YEA RS. In spite oi the ravages of war an ! disease dm day will inevitably arrive when the earth will he uuemmoUtiaol.v crowded. It is calculated ilia.t- tit l earth's population is doubled in 3) wars. As a matler of fad', 'he pop t la lion of the United Kingdom double., itself every 89 years, and that of England and M ales every 5 1 years. 1 akin d the world-peri;. ! of r 39 years, a simple calculation will -how that- by A.D. 2oi? there will ho its many people in the world .as there arc acres. That is. the world's population "ill have grown to 33,132,000,000. By this l line--that 1-. Gt)o • ntr. hencj -our little globe will certainly bo quite “full up," so far its comfort- and die means ol living arc concerned. M’lnt will happen then, or later who shall sav Pur if the population ccntinncs to'grow nt the .same rate, the time wih arrive when there "ill ho as many uc 1 - plc as there arc not acres, him square yard,- on the earth’s surface- -when, in 'fact, 'there will bo cunfort-ibic i-land ing-r<'oni only. And that day will arrive somewhere about, the year -1000, when, probably, even the- pre-mu;- world-war will be on-y a vague legend.