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Re: The Limits To Growth



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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