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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



On 19 Nov 1996 05:40:53 GMT, jwas@ix.netcom.com(jw) wrote:

>Not I. Because - you see - I am not a Malthusian.
>I wonder if you are happy at this population reduction;
>if not, you are an *inconsistent* Malthusian.
>
>Zaire is not a very *progressive* country, you know -
>not industrial or post-industrial; but it is
>simply awash in so-called "natural resources". 
>That does not help at all.  It never did.

Have Zaire's borders changed since 1984? In that year the United
Nations did a survey of Zaire's food production capacity which said
that nation could feed well over 200 million people using just
low-input farming. Throw enough fertilizer in there, and Sudan could
feed 2 billion people -- the area makes Sudan look downright resource
poor.


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