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Re: The Limits To Growth
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Subject: Re: The Limits To Growth
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From: atanu@are.Berkeley.EDU (Atanu Dey)
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Date: 13 Nov 1996 18:05:23 GMT
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Article: 15858 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Organization: the Center of the Known Universe
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Bruce Scott TOK (bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de) wrote:
: Mike Asher (masher@tusc.net) wrote:
: [argument with set of figures leaving out 1995 omitted]
: : As an aside, I will note that the majority of agricultural land in the
: : world is farmed with low-tech inefficient methods. Expantion of the use of
: : modern agriculture, new species, and good infrastructure, can more than
: : double world food production. All without an additional acre being farmed,
: : though, in the US at least, agricultural land usage has been on the decline
: : for many years. Perhaps you have some statistics here?
: You are welcome to calculate the increase of the crude oil drawdown rate
: if the rest of the world farms the way the US does.
Mike Asher, I suppose, also decries the low-tech inefficient methods
that most of the third-world 'voluntarily' adopts for transportation
(bicyles, etc) instead of the more efficient high-tech v-8 powered
4x4s. Damn those stupid people in the third world - if only they
would become more efficient and use the same level of resources as
the advanced countries, then we would all live better.
Atanu
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