WHAT OF THE FUTURE?
CIVILISATION’S RESOURCES RUNNING OUT. Sydney, August 31. At the Science Congress during a general discussion on the economic resources of the world, Professor Nevin M. Fenneman, a member of the American National Research Council, said the greatest economic fact of the nineteenth century was the increase in the world’s population from one billion lo a billion and a half. If the world had readied the point of 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 einturios when a large number of the resources on which we counted lor the present civilisation would he things of the past. If we contained to use coal at the present rate the supply would probably last less 1 liau three thousand years.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2627, 1 September 1923, Page 2
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152WHAT OF THE FUTURE? Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2627, 1 September 1923, Page 2
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