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From: "Tom Vogt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> someone calculated that to supply the standard-of-living of canada today
> to every person on the globe would require the natural resources of two
> additional earths. I can look up the source if someone wants it.
"Someone" is an idiot. Read "Ultimate Resource" by Julian Simon (it's
available on the web). Since 1990, we have overproduction of food in
Romania - that's after exporting lots of it. [Of course, this overproduction
is partly caused by the subsidizing of farming by the state.] And Romania is
a poor country...
What the poor countries lack is not birth control, but private property and
free trade. Until they get those, they'd continue to starve to death.
[Unfortunately, it seems that the current trend is for the less socialist
countries to become more socialist, instead of the other way around...]
Mark
