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me: So i'm not well read on the subject do you think it's an overpopulation cause? i mean, overpopulation, therefore food sortage?
Laura: Unfortunately I'm not well read on the issue either I imagine though that there are various variables
Laura: 1. Waste and over consumption in the West
Laura: 2. Reduction of arable land due to bad ecoplanning maybe
Laura: 3. High cost of production and shipping of food
me: the way the economy works, the way things are exported imported, and the policies that prmote certain practices yup
Laura: so the question is, is there actually too little food to go around?
me: Ok, so robin was saying she believes overpopulation is not the reason, but rather all the points you mentioned and a whole bunch of other factors causing some people to be overly abundant in food, and others starving
me: she said scientists believe world should be able to spport 12 million people with food
Laura: err, i hope that's billion
me: Anyway, so I was thinking about this and i thought "Just becaus a world can support 12 billion people doesn't mean it should"
me: and maybe all these factors that you and robin mentioned are just ways to stop the population from hitting 12 billion. What you think? Just an idea.
Laura: The difficulty I have is purely that so much more of the world is starving, working like dogs for very few wages, etc, than is enjoying the fruits of that labour. Even
if it is a way of keeping down the population - so are epidemics,
natural disasters, wars - it is a horribly unfair way of going about it.
me: maybe World Justice is a constant stuck at the value 3 ( on a scale of 0-10, 0 being unjust, 10 being just)
Laura: Because also note this: In all of the regions where the starvation is the worst, the primary resource of people is other people. If starvation was the best way to keep populations down, then the population of these places would be abysmally low. Instead, we have LOWER birth rates here in Canada.
Obviously the best way to control population is to have an over abundance of food, freedom, and comfort. grins your thoughts?
me: hmm...I have to think about that one.....good idea though hmm......
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