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Can The World Feed Its Population? | 82 comments (82 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Constitutions and societies are based on compromises about what is permissible. You seem to think that state force should be used to protect your(?) right to spend as much water as you like to maintain a golf course.

practically without environmental consequences

If that's the case, then no problem. But what if it isn't?

So 90% of what all people in the west do in their daily jobs is just done because of we are so selfish idiots?

Well, yes. But why restrict it to the West (whatever that is today)?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 09:38:11 AM EST
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Certainly there are countries where the agriculture is so unproductive with regard to the use of labour, that most people have to work on the fields to produce food, cloth and a roof on top of everybody, so that even with defining everything else as waste, in those countries most do useful stuff.

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by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 11:52:18 AM EST
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Sure, but that's a lot less than not-West.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 11:56:19 AM EST
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I could have written "in the more or less developed world". That I've written West doesn't mean only West. But it is probably still a significant part of the world which is living close to the edge of survival.

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by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 12:48:21 PM EST
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