Monday, November 11, 2013

There is NO food shortage! The planet is NOT overpopulated! Wake up!

I am tired of hearing how abortion and euthanasia and etc are necessary because "we do not have enough to take care of every one in the world". Here is proof that that is not true, and explanations for why people are dying from hunger. People die from hunger due to inequality and greed (i.e. sin), not because God is an idiot who made a planet full of life but failed to stock it with enough resources to sustain it to its ending.
"The world produces enough food to feed everyone. World agriculture produces 17 percent more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago, despite a 70 percent population increase. This is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person per day according to the most recent estimate that we could find (FAO 2002, p.9). The principal problem is that many people in the world do not have sufficient land to grow, or income to purchase, enough food. " Kilocalories are the same as calories.



Other places to find and verify this information are: 
the United Nations World Food Programme

 http://www.wfp.org/hunger/faqs
 and
http://www.foodfirst.org/node/239 

Some will then ask, "If we distribute the food so everyone has enough, wouldn't the population go up (due to less death and disease everywhere) that there really won't be enough food?"
Not likely. As stupidly and wastefully as we do things now, and asmuch cropland and possible food sources that are wasted in so many ways now, we STILL are increasing food production faster than population growth. If we use permaculture, stop tearing up the earths surface to extract non-renewable resources from deep inside, and stop blowing up or burning cropland because we hate each other we could do so much better than we are now. Therefore I would say I really seriously doubt that will ever be a problem... and get better at practicing monogamy. I read an article a while back about a 27year old who had over 40 children. If everybody lived like that, I suppose the day might come where the earths ability to support us would be truly strained, but as it stands I think we will be all right...

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