| Re: Organic farming environmental disaster! Quote:
Originally Posted by tryreading The population has quadrupled since 1900, will be 7 billion by 2012, and should double about every 50 years according to projections: LiveScience.com :
This should be a downer on us. We will use and use until there are shortages of all of the basic things we need, like oil and water, and won't change our rate of consumption until we are forced to by lack of things, like money or resources. This is information we could learn from, and we could make some changes before the fact, but we won't. | I dont buy the long term projections we have a precident to believe as countries become developed their population growth slows down.technology investment is at the forefront of dealing with these problems im confident throught GM and alternative energy possibilites we can handle it.
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