lanceMay 16th, 2008 - 15:55:08

... well, well. It is pretty clear that humans will multiply beyond the means of their environment. That threshold is either here or is coming quickly. That is unless food synthesis technology can advance substantially along with alternative energy sources. Growing pig meat from reactors and extruding it in just-in-time consumption. Then the threshold increases and is crossed at the next population boom. Who knows, maybe the next solution will be to synthesize food in space in huge factories and drop the products down to earth so that humans can populate even more. There is a theoretical limit though: When humans are shoulder to shoulder across the entire earth and stacked ten high then they might choose different behavior, but I doubt it.

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LewisMay 16th, 2008 - 19:51:11

Maybe they should drop the ammo budget a little and use it on meals.

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juhaMay 19th, 2008 - 23:23:09

even in poverty and hunger...the last lines are the telling tale, they still want children? Once advanced enough a countries population stabalizes then starts a slow gentrification. But with poverty abundent in poor inpoverished countries they still produce large faimilies, then complain they are hungry or cant afford to eat....hmmmmm. Is it a wonder these countries fall to the wayside....into choas and destruction.

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SP4: Ok, time to take your meds LanceMay 24th, 2008 - 16:06:13

There is no food shortage. We have all the means to grow all the food we need. Obesity is one of the west's most common conditions.

Zimbabwe is the gold standard: Once a food EXPORTER, the Stalinist nutjob rulers have flushed the white farmers, but still have no one who wishes to farm(?????) and now has food shortages.

This is not a supply problem, it is a nutball problem. Tell them to fix it and tell them soon.

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GooseMay 25th, 2008 - 07:20:54

Real problem is that the old Opec countries have grown some balls because India and China (some extent Russia) have adopted more market driven enconomies over the past yrs and with such huge populations can now buy oil with this new found wealth. This wealth lets them think that they have the west by the nuts when it comes to oil. The mis-calc is that the west has them by the nuts in food, as the west goes more to bio fuel the food supply becomes more expensive. Examples of this new delight are the dancing chimps Chavez and Ahminajihad, but despite their chimp dances the food is becoming more expensive for their people causing instability. End game will come when the US opens up its Alaskan fields (predict about 5 yrs) and body slams opec, the balance will fail, oil will plumet.
The funny thing is you will all continue paying the price at the pump and food will not become cheaper. Nuke power is the ace in the hole in this senario and if adopted could cause the above more quickly.
SP4, am I nuts?

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the missunderstandingMay 29th, 2008 - 20:52:32

i don't understand why the pakistani goverment are not investing in the foods making in the context of the world market, and in the same enrichissed the villagers to solve the hungry and involve the villager investing in the city.

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hhuqMay 31st, 2008 - 16:46:01

They have wealth to test new and improved missile systems and latest weapons buying from the western countries who are merchants of death. Pakistan is a basket case who cannot feed its own citizens and yet wants kashmir to add to its misery.

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