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Food vs fuel wars just beginning
By Gioietta Kuo (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-07-06 16:21
More people means more mouths to feed. It is obvious that when the growth
of population outstrips the capacity of the world to produce food, famine
is the inevitable result.
We have to give every incentive to reduce the world's population right
now. The world's population presently stands at 6.5 billion. It is
projected to grow to 8.2 billion by 2030 and 9 billion in 2050.
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How are we going to feed these additional people when there is already
hunger in the world?
This is the most urgent problem humanity has yet faced. Unless we solve
this problem, all the other problems such as global warming, water
shortages, oil running out will become irrelevant.
There are two important questions at issue here. The first is a moral
question: Should we deprive many less developed countries of food just so
that we in the industrial countries in the West can have our pleasure
rides? Second, a much more important question is: Can the world afford
the destabilization - economic, political and social - that is sure to
follow from a starving populace?
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