>> Current estimates place the food cosumption volumes at a maximum in
>>sixty years from 1990. This means that if every mouth was feed evenly,and at
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>>current growth rates, there will be just enough food for sustaining life. Afterthe year 2050, this will not be true. Does anyone out there have any senarios
>>that are not so gloomy? Help me escape my pessimistic outlook! I know about
>>environmental dangers that are considered to be genecide prior to 2050, but
>>what about pure overpopulation estimates.
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>Your 'if' is a fantasy ideal (like frictionless planes). There already isn't
>enough food to sustain life in the real world at 'current' population levels.
>
There's plenty of food. Food rots in warehouses in this country while
the government pays farmers (who are going bankrupt because the market
price of what they produce is less than the cost of producting it)
not to grow crops for which there is no demand, and all the while more
and more productive land is being paved over for business parks -
because its the cheapest land available. This doesn't sound like
a plausible scenario in a world on the brink of starvation. The main
problem is one of distribution. Look at Somalia. That country could
easily feed its own people - but all the "powerful interests" seem
interested in is fighting to the death for political control of the
starving population. *That's* not an *agricultural* problem.
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