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Originally posted by halfoldman
reply to post by SaturnFX
They may be poor (many have been historically), but to actually call them starving is another issue.
Starvation can be a slow and silent death.
I'm sure it happens, and it's terrible and unnecessary.
I'm not convinced that simply because people earn little money in China and India they are facing famines or starving.
Deaths from malnutrition on a large scale have continued across India into modern times. In Maharashtra alone, for example, there were around 45,000 childhood deaths due to mild or severe malnutrition in 2009, according to the Times of India.[128] Another Times of India report in 2010 has stated that 50% of childhood deaths in India are attributable to malnutrition.[129] Growing export prices, the melting of the Himalayan glaciers due to global warming, changes in rainfall and temperatures are issues affecting India. If agricultural production does not remain above the population growth rate, there are indications that a return to the pre-independence famine days is a likelihood. People from various walks of life, such as social activist Vandana Shiva and researcher Dan Banik, agree that famines and the resulting large scale loss of life from starvation have been eliminated after Indian independence in 1947.[fn 12] However, Shiva warned in 2002 that famines are making a comeback and government inaction would mean they would reach the scale seen in the Horn of Africa in three or four years.[130]
Originally posted by g146541
reply to post by halfoldman
Only an idiot believes the "overpopulation" myth.
Above all, the fact is, math don't lie!
Doing the math would give every man woman and child a 1/4 acre and every man woman and child would fit into the landspace of Australia.
I think the real problem is rich folk with too much "stuff" and mismanagement.
Really, who needs anything over a hundred acres???
Next she said that if she was a young person she would never "breed", because the world is simply overpopulated. Then I told her that as a gay person the most common argument thrown at me is that we cannot "breed", but if I could I'd actually love to.