Thread: Save Climate and Double Food Production With Eco-Farming
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Old 10-03-2011, 11:12 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible,rec.gardens
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Default Save Climate and Double Food Production With Eco-Farming
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote:

wrote:
Billy writes:

An urgent transformation to 'eco-farming' is the only way to end
hunger and face the challenges of climate change and rural poverty,
said Olivier De Schutter, U.N. Special Rapporteur

That statement is ridiculous.

No amount of additional production will "end" hunger.
Not with an ever increasing demand for food.

All of these political types are afraid to admit the truth.
There are limits.

The shade of Malthus wails over Africa, nobody listens.

David

Read Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and note
the down under issues.

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