How many people can the earth feed? As this article shows it may be far more than anyone thinks but not necessarily by following the traditional methods and ideas.
To: count-your-change
Modestly upping the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide would help a lot.
2 posted on
12/24/2011 10:52:47 PM PST by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: count-your-change
Last time someone claimed that his country could treble it’s agricultural production twenty to thirty million people starved.
I think his name had three letters and started with an “M”.
3 posted on
12/24/2011 10:55:17 PM PST by
sinanju
To: count-your-change
If they're going to double their production, it'll take more seeds and fertilizer. How can we expect the poor farmers to pay for this extra cost?
Quick, give them more subsidies! (We'll have to pay them more to let the land lay fallow as well.)
4 posted on
12/24/2011 10:55:18 PM PST by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: count-your-change
who the hell cares? This is not going to be a problem in north america where we make more food than we need and do not have a population problem.
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8 posted on
12/24/2011 11:09:58 PM PST by
AndrewB
(FUBO)
To: count-your-change
I have read/heard that we manufacture enough food already to feed everyone well.
The problem is in distribution, preservation, and corruption, particularly waste and the nefarious use of food/scarcity for political ends.
9 posted on
12/24/2011 11:15:22 PM PST by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: count-your-change
Everybody needs to invest in commodity futures.
Their stalks are skyrocketing.
12 posted on
12/24/2011 11:32:24 PM PST by
bigheadfred
(MERRY CHRISTMAS)
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22 posted on
12/25/2011 1:59:12 AM PST by
dalereed
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Imagine if we were using food to run our cars, the left would go crazy
because of all the starving people in the world.
27 posted on
12/25/2011 3:14:22 AM PST by
MaxMax
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The earth can feed a lot more people.
What s necessary s for third world countries to use more modern farming techniques.
Using wooden plow behind an ox is not really efficient.
28 posted on
12/25/2011 3:55:55 AM PST by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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