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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
True. Isn't overpopulation what leads to lemmings hurling themselves en masse over cliffs? At least that was the going theory back when in was in High School.
The problem with that line of reasoning (and I don't entirely disagree with it, by the way) is that we just don't have the data to say that such is true about humanity. I recall back in the early 1960s, as a junior-high student, we were being told that the planet was being maxed out vis a vis total population: that the population of the world at the time (about 3 billion as I recall) was already more than the earth sustain and that the coming years and decades would surely see mass starvations, border wars over food and water, etc. etc. Didn't happen, of course. According to Hunger Explained, "Bread for the World" , "In 1960, 1 in 3 people was hungry. Today, chronic hunger affects 1 in every 8 or 9 people". Pretty much blows the doom-and-gloomers of the 1960s totally out of the water.
We don't seem to be anywhere near the point where our knowledge of science is no longer capable of maintaining the status quo regarding world hunger. If anything, history proves the exact opposite.
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I would think that currently there are more than 1 out of 8 people in the world experiencing hunger. We have a hunger problem in the US. Ask any teacher about kids coming to school without having breakfast. The fed gov. is trying to stop that currently.
...... As far as WARS go, unless I am interpreting world events incorrectly........currently Russia and China are FIGHTING BY PROXIE with the free world (Europe and the US) in the Ukraine. China has invaded US airspace for surveillance purposes.
..........And masses of economic migrants are crushing over the US southern border and masses are trying to enter Europe.
........I am just answering a post on this subject. I have NO problem going back to talking about STDs and what people prefer "up North" to the TV Land BUBBLE. But, I DO consider it BORING. But, it has some merit, better than "what person can BEST fix my misaligned GARAGE DOOR"?