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Environment & Energy

Nihil

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8. Looks like they've answered their own question really.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Apr 15, 2013, 07:45 AM

Apr 2013

> ... to discuss how to feed the nine billion people expected to be alive in 2050 ...

> ... the one billion people who are without food already and who will be hit hardest
> by climate change. They have no capacity to adapt.

i.e., there will not be nine billion people alive in 2050 as at least one billion of the
necessary progenitors will have died.

A self-solving problem. (Shame about the mess of the tidy-up afterwards though.)

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Millions face starvation as world warms, say scientists [View all] xchrom Apr 2013 OP

natural check on population FirstLight Apr 2013 #1

Bullpuckey kristopher Apr 2013 #2

okay FirstLight Apr 2013 #3

That's an abdication of responsibility kristopher Apr 2013 #4

maybe FirstLight Apr 2013 #5

Please encourage action, not fatalism. nt kristopher Apr 2013 #6

Martin Luther King And The Call To Direct Action On Climate kristopher Apr 2013 #7

Looks like they've answered their own question really. Nihil Apr 2013 #8

ironic, how the boom in farming is what started the rise in population.. stuntcat Apr 2013 #9

Yeah, that's pretty much my take on it. GliderGuider Apr 2013 #10