The first two I agree with entirely. The third, pending that an actual feasible solution is derived, I do believe is accurately a fact, not a myth.
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Saving lives DOES lead to overpopulation, if you don't do anything to fix the underlying problems.
The cure for overpopulation is education. Simply saving lives is not the same as educating people.
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May 3, 2015
What is it with you people and this over population BS and BS is what it is. We in American Alone could supply food to every country and still have some left over. Right now the Federal Government pays people to not raise food. Jesus.
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The existence of extra food in America isn't very helpful when you're a dirt-poor villager in Africa.
We also don't grow that much food. Go look at where all the produce in your local supermarket comes from. Much of it is from Mexico. We have to use our food to produce ethanol, a fuel.
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The root of that problem isn't the raw resource availability, but a corrupt culture that prevents the development of adequate infrastructure. I'm not going to argue the cause of that cultural breakdown here, as that's a whole other issue, but it's hard to deny that it is primarily a cultural problem.
Wtinc is not incorrect regarding the mind-boggling over-abundance of actual human-supporting-resources in the world. We're no where near out population limit on the planet, and actually overpopulation is a good ways off still.
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Of course it's a cultural problem, but ignoring it isn't going to change it. We've had corrupt cultures since humans started living in anything larger than a small tribe, so that's something you need to deal with. There's no way to get America's extra food to villagers in Africa without dealing with that corruption somehow, and considering we haven't figured out how to do it yet, a quick solution is not likely.
Yes, if we lived in some utopian society where corruption didn't exist, then it's true we wouldn't be anywhere near the population limit. But we don't live in such a utopian society, not by a long shot. So, we have all kinds of resource problems: there's food shortages, freshwater shortages, energy shortages, medicine shortages, etc. Many of these are made worse by political divisions: you can't just build an wind-energy farm in country A and use that energy in country B, because there's all kinds of political considerations, middlemen who want to be paid off, currency exchanges necessary, etc.
More population just exacerbates all of these problems.
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Corruption in a society isn't a binary thing. There's a lot of levels of corruption that do damage to a society based on its prevalence. The level of starvation in Africa correlates so much stronger with corruption than population, that it's clear that the problem is not "overpopulation". Addressing the perceived population problems are likely to do nothing to help the economic situations in these areas, while if we were able to bring about a change to reduce the level of corruption within these nations, they would rapidly grow economically, as we have seen in other places.
The problem is not overpopulation. The problem is corruption. Yet still, you try to claim there's an over population problem, as if a few less Americans or Chinese would mean more food for starving Africans, which is absurd once you realize that it is the internal corruption of these places that prevents outside aid from helping them in any meaningful way, not a lack of resources from other nations.
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May 3, 2015
I think America is in fact a corrupt culture especial after the last Presidential election
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that is my point we are importing food from other countries granted we can not grow some of it, but a majority of it were paying our own farmers not to grow.
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