2.7182818284590... wrote:
> Do you think that rising food prices will lead to Malthusian famines?
> I am beginning to think that the effects of our high human population
> is rising food prices. Of course, gas prices are also to blame, but it
> shouldn't be the only factor.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm sure that the people who would bear the brunt of
> the rising food prices are subsistence farmers in famined areas.
Poverty is generally a man-made problem that can be alleviated through a
change in man-made institutions. Poverty is not the inevitable result of
population growth.
Malthus was wrong. Human beings don't breed to the point of starvation.
Rather, as population increases, humans invent ways to get more food for
less labor and less land. Among communities that enjoy increased standard
of living, population growth slows.
The solution to the problem of poverty is not population control but the
opening up of natural op****tunity to use land. Also, government must
protect producers from money changers and other economic parasites.
Mark M.
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