In reply to EM Izett's repeated statements on overpopulation and the use of birth control, I would like to point out that if earth's continental land mass (excluding Antarctica) was all used to grow cereal (rice, wheat, barley, etc depending on climate), based on current world averages there would be 550kg of grain grown for every person on earth every year.
If all countries were able to increase production/hectare (through training, or better irrigation) to the level China has (they are 18th in the world for cereal production/hectare), there would be 1.07 tonnes per human per year.
I do not believe the fault is theirs for breeding, in fact it might be ours for not sharing our wealth to build their agriculture.
Chris Jenkins, Ohauiti.
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WAKE UP CHRIS
Posted on 25-11-2011 21:11 | By SCARLET PIMPINEL
The world is being crippled by over population, increasing production for humans will only add further pressure to the environment as a whole. it is not an issue of technology or anything like that it is a case of do we or do we not follow the path taken regularly by the average swarm of locusts or not, surely humans as a collective can muster enough brain cells to see the same fate if the same path is followed.
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