Re: The Passing of a Mathematician

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/16/03 

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:20:32 +0200

Tanu R. writes:

> "George Cox" wrote
>
> > There is no need for more food. People go hungry not because there is
> > not enough food, but because they do not have enough money to buy the
> > food of which there is plenty.
>
> Countries like USA keep the price of food high to protect their own
> agriculture. If the price of food was lower, the less developed countries
> would be able to compete on the market and thus produce more food also for
> their own people.

Food does not reach people who need it for logistic reasons, not because
of any lack of money or any conspiracy on the part of developed nations.
The nations that have the fastest growing populations also tend to have
the least advanced agriculture.

The solution is not to produce and distribute ever increasing amounts of
food; it is to instead reduce overpopulation. The world population
cannot increase infinitely, and the larger it gets, the lower the
standard of living will be for everyone. It makes more sense to
maintain smaller populations with higher standards of living. Developed
nations tend naturally in this direction, in most cases. Developing
nations tend to have unacceptably natural rates of increase, and so they
tend to have periodic famines and very low standards of living. 

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