OK FAIR ENOUGH TOO so poor family's have more kids because so many die
Too because mum and dad need them in their old age and even as kids to grow food
It is quite true
But it too brings about over population
Just suppose a controlling world body said the number of kids we can have is firmly, limited
OK for the very poor to have double that number?
Why not as aid, step in and give them tractors and fuel, food and seed, teaching to show them how to grow food, in part such aid, freely given is an answer to poverty
Aid, properly used is a step in the right direction stopping extreme poverty

Dear JBowyer,

If it's so obvious then why don't you try to explain Loudmouth's thesis in your own words, in a couple of sentences. Loudmouth and individual cannot do it so let's see what you can do. Or do you just want to stick with Loudmouth and individual in saying it's just so simple that it doesn't need explaining?

Belly,

Quite amazing. So you think that people in the developing countries have been sitting around with their thumbs up their arses, waiting for the white man to come along and bring his superior knowledge and culture to save them ? Africans have been farmers for thousands of years, before your and my Neanderthaler ancestors came out of the forests and caves.

Yes, many developing countries have corrupt and incompetent governments, there are often civil wars in some countries, and they are more divided by petty differences than united by overarching similarities and concerns. They'll get over that sooner or later.

And they'll run their own affairs, they don't need any 'world body' to dictate sh!t to them, like you seem to so easily think. In your old age, you forget that do-gooder middle-class people used to have the same pissy attitudes to working-class people here, thinking they knew better. Get over yourself.

Joe

None of Africa's problems is beyond the means
and resources within the continent. What has largely
lacked is proper policy making and implementation.

The Major problems that Africa is facing today 2019
include poor governance, corruption, unemployment,
population growth, insecurity, droughts and famine.

Explanations are offered at:

http://www.africanexponent.com/post/8304-poor-governance-corruption-and-insecurity-major-problems-confronting-africa

Loudmouth wrote:

'Africans have been farmers for thousands of years, before your and my Neanderthaler ancestors came out of the forests and caves.'

Really! He told me he's an Arts grad and I started to believe him. Arts grads don't write crap like this. That's what gives him away.

Misopinionated,

"First Farmers' by Peter Bellwood, is the best introduction to the history of farming. It arose after the last Ice Age (too much history for you ?) in very complex circumstances and in surprisingly few places around the world - northern Mesopotamia (grains), north China (grains), West Africa (grains), Mexico and Peru (maize), and the highlands of New Guinea (root crops like taro and yams).

Sorry about all that history, but we're all the product of it. Okay, maybe not you, the Neanderthals didn't survive the Ice Age. Well, clearly, some did, but they've taken refuge in postmodernist ivory towers and are kept alive only on public funds.

Joe