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SERIOUS POSSIBILITY CIVILISATION THREATENED Reed. 12.5 p.m. GENEVA, Wednes. There were 200 scientists, statesmen, economists, and Government officials present at the opening of the first International World Population Conference, which it is expected will result in the establishment of a permanent international organisation to study one of the most fundamental problems facing mankind, seeing that the size of the earth and its capacity to support human beings are limited, while the populations are continually growing, and creating social, economic, and political situations, which are threatening most profoundly to alter and possibly wreck the present civilisation. Professor East (Harvard University) expressed the opinion that at its present rate of increase the earth’s population, within a century, would reach 5,000 millions, which was the utmost the earth was capable of supporting. He advocated the immediate formation of an international union to establish a just peace between the peoples, founded on basic instincts of nutrition and reproduction.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 138, 1 September 1927, Page 11
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