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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
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Subject: Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
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From: ssusin@emily11.Berkeley.EDU (Scott Susin)
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Date: 16 Nov 1996 21:58:01 GMT
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Article: 16041 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Organization: Economics Dept., U. C. Berkeley
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J McGinnis (sync@inforamp.net) wrote:
: U.N. World Food Council documents:
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: Every day around the world 40,000 people die of hunger. That's 28
: human beings every minute, and three out of four of them
: are children under the age of five.
: The number of hungry people increased five times faster in the 1980s
: than in the previous decade. By 1989, 550 million people filled the
: ranks of the malnourished or hungry.
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If this is so, it says nothing about the environment, since
world food production per capita increased over the 1980s.
Further, food production per capita has been increasing
on every continent except for Africa.
: This shows quite plainly that things are not getting better. Since
: 1989 the number of people facing famine has almost doubled. These
: people are not simply upset that they have to live on swill instead of
: a Big Mac and fries, they're dying.
Which says much about political instability and war in Africa,
but little about a worldwide shortage of food.
: If everyone produced and consumed food as North Americans do, there
: would only be enough food on the planet to feed 2.5 Billion people. On
: the other hand if Americans reduced their meat consumption by just
: 10%, it would free up 12 million tons of grain anually - more than
: enough to feed all those facing famine.
: Jason McGinnis
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Scott Susin "Time makes more converts than
Department of Economics Reason"
U.C. Berkeley Thomas Paine, _Common_Sense_
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