Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-xm8r8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-07T21:54:09.006Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Population Problems in the Contemporary World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Boris Ourlanis
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Earthly civilization has now entered a phase of development which requires urgent need of imagination to discern its eventual evolution.

Demographic problems occupy a considerable place in global development. Numerous authors interested in the future of the planet have referred to the important factor of population increase. Nevertheless their attitudes toward demographic problems, the manner in which they conceive their own roles, their forecasts are all diverse and reflect a wide range of ideas from serene optimism to nihilistic pessimism.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 27 , Issue 107 , September 1979 , pp. 109 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © 1979 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 L.A. Kniajinskaia, Neo-colonialism and the Problem of Nourishment in the Developing Countries, Moscow, 1977, p. 47.

2 See my Demographic Growth in Europe, Moscow, 1941, p. 400.

3 Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, 1978, p. XI.

4 Marx-Engels, Selecied Works, The Role of Labor in the Transformation from Ape to Man, 1975, p. 376.

5 M. Volkov, "Developing Countries and the Problems of Employment," Voprossy ekonomiki, 1978, n. 4, p. 91.

6 Population and Development Review, 1977, XII, p. 485.