Reply #19: We're not talking about abstract creatures or pure mathematics

[OKIsItJustMe]

We're talking about people.

Living, breathing, breeding, dying people.

The population will not neatly limit itself to 1,000 as you seem to suggest.

There will be ecological devastation, as the population eats anything they can to keep from starving.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22902512/

Haiti’s poor resort to eating mud as prices rise

Cookies made of dried yellow dirt become sustenance, livelihood, concern

updated 1/29/2008 6:43:57 PM ET

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums and Charlene Dumas was eating mud.

With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies.

Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.

The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.

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http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2010/06/27/niger-people-eat-leaves-and-lizards-to-survive-millions-of-people-are-facing-starvation/

Niger: People eat leaves and lizards to survive, millions of people are facing starvation

Posted On Jun 27

Aid organisations are warning that millions of people are facing starvation from drought and crop failure in the West African country of Niger, and some people are turning to desperate measures to survive.

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“You don’t see them very often. There are not that many about.”

Moustafa, Karim’s head man, was talking excitedly into his mobile phone. “He’s calling the kids from the village,” explained our host.

“He wants them to climb the tree and get the poor creature down.”

It was hardly surprising, I thought, that the bo was scarce. It is rotten luck to be a delicious animal in a land where people are hungry.

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Competition for scarce food supplies will lead to violence (i.e. wars) which in addition to killing people, wreak havoc on the environment.

As a "deep ecologist," it may seem paradoxical to you, but the rest of the ecosystem may benefit most from having the human population well fed.