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We've been here before, too, except before it was food shortages and 100s of millions dying that were being predicted in alarmist tones: http://en.wikipedia.or
by patrickk 16y ago
We've been here before, too, except before it was food shortages and 100s of millions dying that were being predicted in alarmist tones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb
And the solution, which apparently now sustains one third of the world's population:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
My prediction, is that like before, science will solve the problem and this will all disappear into the memory. Man's capacity to wipe itself out is far outpaced by it's ingenuity to sustain itself.
Then: Cold War, oil shocks
Now: Terrorism, oil shocks
History always repeats itself.