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To: crazyshrink
“The warmer temperatures are probably good for a while, but beyond some level plants will be stressed,” explained Brecke. “With more droughts and a rapidly growing population, it is going to get harder and harder to provide food for everyone and thus we should not be surprised to see more instances of starvation and probably more cases of hungry people clashing over scarce food and water

That's SCIENCE that is. You can't argue with that.

No wait, it's recycled Malthusianism. Which has an excellent pedigree - everybody remembers 90% of the world's population dying of starvation last century, don't they?

3 posted on 11/21/2007 11:06:18 AM PST by agere_contra (Do not confuse the wealth of nations with the wealth of government - FDT)
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To: agere_contra
No wait, it's recycled Malthusianism. Which has an excellent pedigree - everybody remembers 90% of the world's population dying of starvation last century, don't they?

The only way I was able to get through the starvation of the 1980s was by eating remaindered copies of Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb.

4 posted on 11/21/2007 11:13:12 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
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