Tom Vogt wrote:
>
> Marcel Popescu wrote:
> > Irrelevant. We're not interested in bacteria, but in humans. And we're not
> > interested in 7 billion years from now on, but in (at most) the next hundred
> > years. Given the current technology, we could feed probably 1,000 billion
> > people, and there's room for much more than that *without* leaving the
> > Earth. There's no way we could make 1,000 billion people in the next hundred
> > years. QED.
>
> wrong. I must quote from memory since I don't have the book here, but if
> you want title, author and ISBN, just ask:
>
> at the current standard of living for canada, we would ALREADY need two
> ADDITIONAL earths to sustain the CURRENT world population.
>
Please, Tom. This is really getting tired. Malthus' theories were disproven
years ago. Technology increases the population carrying capacity of the
planet.
Rehashing Malthusian theory, while it may serve the political purposes
of the greens, is like arguing about the flatness of the earth.
When most people talk about overpopulation that really mean overpopulation
of "little brown people" -- an inherently racist position. Of those who
are not secret racists what they really mean is that we have too many people
living in poverty.
Its a sad fact of life that, either through ignorance or intention societys
have chosen suboptimal ecoonomic/political systems. A vast number of people starved
in Russia when Stalin forced farm collectivism on the people. That Stalin
didn't change his ways when millions began starving and proving that
collectivism doesn't scale was probably more a testemant to his political
goals.
Starvation and privation in most of Africa is almost a stereotype.
Stick with a minimal government and something approaching english common
law and we have goods and happiness aplenty.
For most people it doesn't matter why this works. It just does. Stop
screwing with it. Look at the most properous nations on the earth
(including your own) and some approximation of common law and free markets
is what you will find.
That some regions and population have not arrived there is indeed sad
and unfortunate for them. If it pleases you, please go help them.
jim
