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Out of the Demographic Trap: Hope for Feeding the World : Comments

By Fred Pearce, published 20/4/2010

The next agricultural revolution needs to get local — and must start to see rising populations as potentially part of the solution.

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I can not believe thinking people can still go on about increasing the population on the planet. It appears there is a game to see just how many we can actually fit on the Earth before everything collapses. Why do we want one more mouth to feed? If we could say we will be better off technologically or socially or have a better standard of living for all I would agree but this is blatently not the case.

There may be a tribe in Africa doing OK now but we haven't had a drought yet and if we do we will, once again, be calling on Mr. Geldoff to give us bread. Also these good hard working dig-stick farmers are still living in a grass hut. No reticulated water, no sewage plant, busses, cars or holidays at the coast or visit grandma in Dallas Texas which should be the right and privaledge of every person on the planet.

It will never happen with the poplation we have. Critical technolocial mass of the world population probably arrived in about 1968 to 75 or thereabouts and we have not needed one more mouth since then to continue on our merry way increasing our, and every person on th planet's quality of life.

What about all the other "people" we share the world with? Where are they going to live when we have turned every gully, hill or plain into a sumptuous food bowl? Sorry, no room Mr Koala or Mr Dog or Mr Elephant, you will have to go on the plate to make room for another 312 people.

How dumb can you get espousing an increase in population. I want to see EVERY starving child in Eretria at school and all the girls in Mumbai or Mexico City lining up to go to University with full bellies and a job at the end before I will ever consider thinking about more people on the planet.

This is not going to happen as there is not enough fertilizer or energy to allow this to happen with the World population as it is.
Posted by Guy V, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 5:56:07 PM
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