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Old 11-06-2014, 12:35 PM posted to rec.gardens
David Hare-Scott[_2_] David Hare-Scott[_2_] is offline
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songbird wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
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How do you feed the world for the next 50 years without heavy
reliance on farming and consuming high carb crops?


the same way it was done before much of the
current nonsense came along. diversity, smaller
farms and people working together as an actual
community.


There just won't be enough food. What is so hard to understand about 2/3 of
the worlds food calories come from carbohdrates, mainly grain grown on
farms? If you stop doing that what do they eat? Do it like it was done
before? What was that, when? When the entire world population was a few
million? How does that scale up to 7 billion? Where does the land come
from?

i've seen good results here on not much room
at all, no reason it can't work on a larger
scale other than needing more people who would
want to do it. enough people get hungry enough
and perhaps they will want to do it too.



Stop with the idealism for a second, take a breath and look at the figures.
You and Todd are both in fantasy land.


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