Sunday, February 27, 2011

The Economist: "The 9 Billion-people question" Special report 16pp 02/26/2011

Feeding The World
The latest numbs.  From a rather influential and highly visible magazine/data source.

The incredible part:  The Feeding (and cleaning up after) 9,000,000,000 people they see as feasible (with a whole LOT of IFs). (See last page)...
(And, they recognize "climate change will add to the strains", amongst several other pithy observations.)

The problem I have with that is if they really think that food will be available, population will go up, with food no longer a consideration.

9Bn humans?  with 6Bn or more from now until 2110???  We'll eat everything on the planet.
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FRISH