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newshound writes
On 30/10/2015 09:00, Norman Wells wrote:

The graph of world population over time is inexorably upwards at an ever
increasing rate. Even at the existing rate of growth, it will reach 16
billion by 2100 from the current 7 billion, and the harsh truth is that
it can't possibly produce enough food for that many. There just isn't
enough land that can be productively cultivated.

Even here in nicely arable Britain, using all the farmland available, we
can currently only produce enough food to sustain just 60% of the
population, or about 36 million. We have to import the rest. That
proportion will fall to just over 50% if the latest projected increase
to 70 million people happens by mid 2027, ie in just an astonishingly
short 12 years from now.

The only way to stop catastrophic world population growth is to have
global government with Draconian powers over life and death. And that
just won't come about by 2027, 2050, 2100, or any time before it's far
too late.

Sorry to be so apocalyptic so early in the morning, but the writing is
on the wall, and it's as well to read it.

Paul Erlich was saying this in the 1960's. He was wrong, and so are you.


Malthus was saying essentially the same thing in 1798, so it's certainly
not a new idea.
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