UN Population Projections:

[HillsideDigger]

http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/longrange2.htm

This site has many informative tables for those concerned with growing enough food for everyone.

A particularly fascinating table details what would result if recent growth rates by nation were maintained until the year 2300.

The world would have 134 trillion people with Uganda alone having 19 trillion but with Russia being reduced to just one million.

Obviously, this could not totally happen but this table does help illustrate just how weird these times are and gives a whole new meaning to 'Growthmania'.

[zebraman]

The Actual reality is the Earth Produces enough Food to feed all the People on the Planet.The only problem is Unfair Distribution.The US takes the Lions share because we have more $ per capita than anyone else.It is not by accident that we throw out more usable food that some Countries have all together.We share in Overabundance at the expense of a great number of peoples.Is it Fair-NO.Is it a Fact-Yes.We also give alot but then again we have the lion share.With more GMO food/with promises of greater and greater harvests will only increase the divide between the haves and the havenots.

[Cliff Timmons]

We just can't help our greatness.

We are very fortunate to live in this great land. God bless America,...... again.

[HillsideDigger]

The levels of food grown in the world this year are achieved with unsustainable and even poisonous application levels of fertilizer, pesticides and fossil water, much less is dependent upon a huge stream of petroleum which will soon run out.

So, don't pat yourself on the back to hard.

[Cliff Timmons]

I'm sorry, I missed that. I was smacking a Big-Mac. ;) :D

[dirtundernails]

So we should take what the U.N. says (who as we all know is a completely neutral, non biased, and not motivated by any political agenda, and whose findings are always correct ;) ) at face value?

No, thank you.

Mathematically, yes, take value X, project it forward using factor Y, and get Z. That's just math.

Take real world living organisms, add, disease, weather, food abundance and famine, drought, war, and other real factors, that contribute to life and death, and scientists A's wild guess is as good as Scientists B's W.A. guess. Then, choose to believe whatever propoganda one's personal philosophy finds more palatable.

I am not quibbling over things such things as the economy of corn fed beef, monocultural cropping, GMO foods, oil intensive Farming, and other unsustainable agriculture practices, etc. Nor am I attacking anyone here. I am simply poo-poo-ing the U.N.

Personally, I think they are a bunch of one world government propogandists with an agenda, and treat any information they disseminate as such. That does not mean they could not have a kernel of truth here and there, as do many great deceptions.

America, bless G-d again.

Hubby of DUN.

[HillsideDigger]

"People who take issue with control of population do not understand that if it is not done in a graceful way, nature will do it in a brutal fashion."

http://dieoff.org/page147.htm

[johno]

You got that right!

[HillsideDigger]

Some people are so optimistic (uninformed) as to think, with the production and use of sufficient fertilizer and pesticides (they call it best farming practices) and conversion of all possible (they claim only 1/3rd. of the world is farmed) land to farming (Hey, surely there's no human benefit from rainforest, wildland and biodiversity!), the world is actually underpopulated with people

and even that climate change will obviously be good for food production (I doubt it).

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=10494