David Honig wrote:
>
> At 12:42 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Jim Burnes wrote:
> >Please, Tom. This is really getting tired. Malthus' theories were disproven
> >years ago. Technology increases the population carrying capacity of the
> >planet.
>
> Polynomial vs. exponential growth. Exponential wins every time.
>
> Besides, the genes are maxxed out on the foodcrops.. [an article in
> Science in the last year]
>
>
That assumes that you have continous exponential growth in (1) industrialized
countries and (2) 3rd world.
Populations are regulated by food levels and land mass. I know we have
enough land and tech in the US to handle future population growth, but
unless the 3rd world adopts free market socio-economic systems they
will stagnate once their level of population increase exceeds their
socio-economic/tech curve. Free food to those regions just prolongs
the pain.
Sad, but true.
jim
