[wagglebee]

Obviously, if low-tech farming could possibly support six billion people, the population would have grown to that size during the centuries when low-tech farming was practiced.

World population started to grow in the 19th century and started to escalate in the 20th century, this was due primarily to medical advances that significantly reduced the rate of childhood mortality.

There have been SOME famines in history that were the result of droughts; however, they have mainly been due to oppression. There were plenty of famines in medieval Europe, but that was because feudalism RESTRICTED the ability of the peasants to farm the lands they rented.

Farming requires exactly FOUR things:

Fertile soil, seeds, fertilizer and water. Mankind has known this for over five thousand years and the basics have NEVER CHANGED.

[metmom]

That lonely little brain cell of his may not be able to process that much information at once.