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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



David Lloyd-Jones (dlj@inforamp.net) wrote:
: yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky) wrote:

: >World Food Organization reports that over 800 million people are starving 
: >on this planet right now. Get rid of your pink glasses.

: Yuri,
:  
: I very much doubt that this is what the World Food Organization
: (what's that?)

That's FAO, a UN agency. Have your heard about them?

: reports -- but I am perfectly willing to believe that
: 800 million are close to the margin.
:  
: It would also be my guess that at the turn of the century there were
: 800 million hungry out of a population of a billion.

How do you know this? The number of hungry people on the planet is now 
greater than ever!

Yuri.
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