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Subject: Re: Population control
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Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 12:13:54 EDT
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[Michael Stein]
>>Even today, as several people have noted when talking about the
>>Ethiopian problem, the world produces enough food.  The problem is
>>distribution and storage.

>My understanding is that the world currently produces enough food to
>feed everyone, or nearly everyone, adequately.  But the enormous
>problem of distributing the food to those who need it has been and
>will continue to be aggravated by overpopulation, in various ways.
>For example, overgrazing has resulted in desertification in the
>Sahel.

A while back I read in the newspaper something about that everybody in
the world could be placed into an area the size of the state of Texas, and
the population would be about that of New York City.  I was skeptical,
but it turns that NYC is more densely populated.  Texas covers 267,339
square miles.  For 5 billion people, that's 18,702/sq mi.  New York covers
about 319 square miles.  For 7 million people, that's 21,943/sq mi.

>Richard Carnes

David Olson
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