Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Too Many to Feed
The New York Times ^ | May 30, 1973 (yes 1973) | James P. Brown

Posted on 05/23/2024 7:01:49 AM PDT by Salman

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-40 last
To: Salman

‘I was around back then. There were two groups predicting the end of the world by 1975.

The editorial board of The New York Times and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Both cults are still in existence despite their disappointment. /snicker

“information disorder”

Another 1984 euphemism from the Ministry of Truth word factory.

Information disorder is a global phenomenon that refers to the spread of misleading or harmful information in the digital environment.

It can include:
Misinformation: Sharing false information without intending to cause harm.

Disinformation: Sharing false information with the intent to cause harm.

Malinformation: Sharing genuine information with the intent to cause harm.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7580464/#:~:text=Information%20disorder%20syndrome%20is%20the,is%20categorized%20into%20three%20grades.


21 posted on 05/23/2024 7:52:13 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it!” )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

Math tends to ignore ideology.

The planet is not growing. There is not a 50% increase in the volume of the planet vs its volume 50 years ago.

It is finite. Stuff in it is also finite.

Most of population growth is in Africa right now, and it is getting fed with farming there. No, there was no order of magnitude jump in production of a particular seed. The growth is in how much land is producing stuff, and that happens for two reasons — synthetic fertilizer and oil.

Rock phosphate and nat gas makes fertilizer on a scale appropriate to the vast expanse of land devoted to growing food. And oil powers the tractors that get seeds planted on the 100s of thousands of acres before planting season expires. And then gets it harvested before winter rots it in the fields.

These items are finite because the planet’s size is finite.

Math doesn’t care about ideology.


22 posted on 05/23/2024 7:55:14 AM PDT by Owen (.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: spankalib

So far.....😊👍


23 posted on 05/23/2024 8:01:07 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Salman

The US farmer can out produce anyone. In the 1930s depression and Dust Bowl, the US still produced so much food the FDR admin had millions of cattle and hogs bought up, shot and buried to get the price of food up, Up, UP!
Meanwhile people were starving because there were no jobs to earn money to buy food.
“Did the ghost walk?” was a common saying back then. It meant “Did you get paid?”

Today farmers have to fill out government forms to grow crops. I remember dad having to fill them out in our youth.


24 posted on 05/23/2024 8:02:13 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salman

Keep the f*****g border open, NYT and we’ll have more and more to feed.


25 posted on 05/23/2024 8:02:26 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

“ZPG”! I remember those days. I also remember another book declared “racist” but is coming true today.
CAMP OF THE SAINTS by Raspail.
Originally it was blacks from Africa overrunning Europe. After a screaming fit by critics he changed the invaders to Asian Indians.


26 posted on 05/23/2024 8:06:09 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Turns out its the moose-limb hordes + now. The ‘yoops’ are idiots. Heck, we’re idiots as well. 🤔


27 posted on 05/23/2024 8:12:17 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Salman
The New York Times and many others in that era were inspired by the 1972 Club of Rome report titled "The Limits to Growth" based on computer simulations that concluded that economic growth could not continue indefinitely because of resource depletion.

As a college freshman at the time, I happened to chat with the primary author of the report at a reception after his visit and speech on my campus. He confided that for some in their leadership, the report indicated a need for Nazi-style eugenics policies to assure that the smartest and best were given preference in reproduction and access to resources. The poor man was sincerely troubled about that but seemed unable to see that it was a logical extension of his report.

Over the years, the Club of Rome report and much else has suggested to me that if food and other resources are fundamentally inadequate and cannot be expanded to meet needs, it is only logical to centralize control over resources, distribute them to your control group and those they favor, and to favor their selective reproduction as well. Communism, fascism, the Marxist green agenda, and the party of Davos all have this logic.

Of course, America and enterprise capitalism repeatedly undo or find ways around limits to resources. This is part of why it is the enemy because it removes a potent practical argument in favor of power for Communists, fascists, Marxist environmentalism, and the Davos movement. I have known enough Jehovah's types to know that they are mostly all nice people with nutty religious views -- which makes them far better people than the adherents of those political movements that seek power over us.

28 posted on 05/23/2024 8:15:19 AM PDT by Rockingham (`)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: central_va

I remember those days! Biggest scare we had was in October 1962 when the Cuban Missile Crisis was upon us. Pushed to the edge of nuclear war! Then it all blew over.

Suddenly it came back! TV programs were broken in to report that NORAD has seen an unidentified flying object coming in over the DEW Line! Was it Russian missiles? A sneak attack! The pucker factor was strong that night!

Then they showed a real chintzy copy of a photo of Santa Clause with cotton ball clouds flying by. It was Dec 24.

We could not decide whether to be relieved or mad for the scare given us.


29 posted on 05/23/2024 8:19:06 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

A global nuclear war will cause a nuclear winter. Greenies, at least we have that going for us.


30 posted on 05/23/2024 8:21:40 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

*


31 posted on 05/23/2024 8:34:02 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No China made, No Amazon)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salman

Doom-saying is big business...


32 posted on 05/23/2024 9:04:12 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Salman
It's not a prophecy. It is a consequence of human hating bastards who are attacking energy and farming sectors of the economy to force a worldwide famine. We're going to have an ice age. That is unavoidable. What is avoidable is famine caused by evil bastards bent on extermination of humans. There is already enough damage done to cause significant famine. Even if we stopped the insanity right now, it will be difficult to limit the consequences.
33 posted on 05/23/2024 9:11:55 AM PDT by Myrddin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jeffc

“Doom-saying is big business...”

It is really big on this site!


34 posted on 05/23/2024 10:01:29 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it!” )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Myrddin
It is a consequence of human hating bastards ...

They are saving the planet ... for themselves.

35 posted on 05/23/2024 10:01:36 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: BobL

Does wheat make one fat and diabetic?


36 posted on 05/23/2024 10:57:33 AM PDT by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Reynoldo
Does wheat make one fat and diabetic?

No. Overeating and under exercising makes one fat and diabetic.

Wheat has been around forever and the healthiest societies in the world are grain (and bean) based in their diets.

Americans don't seem to do much cooking or exercising anymore. Screens render them immobile and fast food and Door Dash render them obese.

And yes, I'm saying in general. Obviously, gluten intolerant people should forego the wheat with buckwheat, oats, barley, etc.

37 posted on 05/23/2024 11:37:23 AM PDT by Lizavetta (A lender am)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Reynoldo

“Does wheat make one fat and diabetic?”

Unfortunately that is the case with today’s wheat.


38 posted on 05/23/2024 3:04:55 PM PDT by BobL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: Salman

Is he, your DNA, Discover the truth once and for all.

https://rapiddnatesting.net/hosted/images/af/bfbd3ee9e0468fa8ce4c0530318263/Rapid-DNA-Testing-Kit-Image-8-—RSC-Health.jpg


39 posted on 05/23/2024 3:16:23 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it!” )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman
"Paul ehrlich and “ZPG” comes to mind.'

What was the point of sacrificing for ZPG back then when Obiden chose to import millions at the start of the 21st century?
40 posted on 05/24/2024 2:20:07 AM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-40 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson