Yabby,
My suggestion is how to win time, how to avoid the worst while we try to control the births. Do you understand me? I suggest what we can do , WHAT WE CAN DO NOW, your solusion is better but it does not depend on us. We do not know how much time it will take people non educated, from poor countries, with big financial problems, people who think pope is god's representative on earth, who think pope's words are god's instructions! They do not change from one day to an other.
We will have problems with them.
Do you see the war in Afganistan? This war will NEVER finish because this country is extremely poor, with 0.02 hectares of grain-land per person they will NEVER have enouph food and always they will fight against their government!
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

*A report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that Afghanistan was nearing self-sufficiency in grain production.[8]*

Read about Afghanistan's economy, only half of their arable land is
even cultivated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Afghanistan

They are rich in gas and minerals, but the Soviets put a stop to many
of their industries.

They could clearly grow alot more food, but its more profitable to
grow poppies instead and buy cheap EU and US taxpayer subsidised
grain. The very reason that many third world growers stopped
growing food, was because cheap, dumped, subsidised commodities
destroyed their market.

Yabby
I do not know where you found all these stories but according to CIA
Afghanistan is extremely poor, landlocked, and highly dependent on foreign aid and most of the half of their national income comes from the opium!

Afghanistan Economy 2009
SOURCE: 2009 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK
Afghanistan is extremely poor, landlocked, and highly dependent on foreign aid, agriculture, and trade with neighboring countries. Much of the population continues to suffer from shortages of housing, clean water, electricity, medical care, and jobs. Criminality, insecurity, and the Afghan Government's inability to extend rule of law to all parts of the country pose challenges to future economic growth. It will probably take the remainder of the decade and continuing donor aid and attention to significantly raise Afghanistan's living standards from its current level, among the lowest in the world
http://www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/afghanistan/afghanistan_economy.html

Afghan economy blooms as opium crop hits record
Last year the country produced almost 4000 tonnes, 75 per cent of the world's opium. The trade generated $US1 billion ($1.3 billion) for farmers and $US1.3 billion for traffickers, the United Nations says. This is more than half of Afghanistan's national income.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/10/1081326984949.html

Most Afghans depend on agriculture for their livelihood. This despite the fact that only 12% of its land area is available for agriculture. Equipment used is primitive. Peasants are totally dependent on spring rains and winter snows. Use of machines, pesticides or chemical fertilizers is almost non-existent
http://afghanistan.saarctourism.org/economy.html

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

Antonious, I quoted you my source, Wickipedia is referenced,
if you want to check on where they got their stats from.

Yes, opium is a huge crop, far more profitable then wheat, so that
is what farmers grow.

Yes farming is backward and has huge potential to improve and increase
production if they wish. So no need to grow their food for them
in Australia, when they could employ Afgahns and grow it right there.

Yes, 12 % is arable and only 6% cultivated, so there is plenty of
potential to cultivate more.

So what Afghans need is not food imported from Australia, but food
grown there, using Afghan labour, water which they have, on soil which
they have.

Gas and various minerals could once again become industries for
them, as they were in the past, before the Soviets stuffed the place.