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Two ways to look at doing good
Ray B
Member Posts: 11,822
At the time of the Enclosure Acts in England, thousands of peasant farmers were forced from the land, where they had sharecropped a meager existance, moving to the cities where they had no means to subsist. Various organizations took pity on their wretched state and started numerous welfare programs. Most consisted of obtaining food for the hungry. At that time there was also a pastor who while having sympathy for the poor concluded that there had been insufficient increase in food production to support the exponentially increasing population, and that shortly there would be an inequality where the nations total food resources were less than the population needed to survive, which would mean that despite whatever programs were in place, the fact of the matter was that there was not enough food to keep everyone alive, which also meant that some were going to starve to death. The pastor concluded that it was worse for the organizations to merely prolong the poor's agony, that it was more merciful for them to starve quickly.
The only thing that prevented the calculation from coming true was the quantum increase in food production resulting from the conversion of petroleum products into fertilizers. However, all that has happened is that the world's population has grown to meet the increased production. Much as been published about the Earth's inability to maintain these levels of production, with many proposals encouraging "sustainable" agriculture. This sustainable agriculture, while good for the long-run produces considerably less food. But at some point the production based on petro-based ingredients will peak and decline. Either through plan or happen-stance there will be a time when the total production of Earth's food will be insufficient for its population.
What will the do-gooders do then?
The only thing that prevented the calculation from coming true was the quantum increase in food production resulting from the conversion of petroleum products into fertilizers. However, all that has happened is that the world's population has grown to meet the increased production. Much as been published about the Earth's inability to maintain these levels of production, with many proposals encouraging "sustainable" agriculture. This sustainable agriculture, while good for the long-run produces considerably less food. But at some point the production based on petro-based ingredients will peak and decline. Either through plan or happen-stance there will be a time when the total production of Earth's food will be insufficient for its population.
What will the do-gooders do then?
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Die in a hail of bullets trying to steal what those that planned, worked, and stockpiled for......
Fixt