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Re: First Trillion
In article <01bbe9fd$4d60ae40$5debaec7@pro>,
"Rick & Bea Tarara" <rbtarara@sprynet.com> wrote:
> Actually my point, but one of the self-regulations is total population.
> Once the resources won't support a given population, the population can't
> continue to grow for very long. I'm sure this will happen long before we
> could every reach a trillion people (at least with the kinds of
> technologies we now have and can forcast into the forseeable future).
You are 100% correct. For the last decade, population has been growing
three times as fast as food production. Right now, we are about at
food/population equity.
The next 20 years should see some famines large enough to stabilize
population in many areas of the world. We may even drop a half a
billion or so.
That third horseman is a big 'un. I can't help feeling that aggressive
birth control would have been kinder...
-- Larry
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