Global Food Crisis Forum
It is a well known fact within scientific circles that any
animal population will expand until it reaches the carrying capacity of the
environment for that species. The carrying capacity is largely determined by
available food resources.
If the population expands beyond that carrying capacity or
the carrying capacity suddenly diminishes due to drought etc, then
competition in the form of 'territories' soon results in the excess population
dieing off due to starvation or injuries received in competing for
'territories'.
Human beings are by no means any different to other
animals despite our technology, although our methods and tools of competition
for territory/resources are some what more savage and indiscriminate than with
all other species.
In parts of the world that a racked with starvation the
response of aide organisations is to provide more food, often in the absence of
other important measures. This is particularly so with the religious aide
organisations.
War, political unrest and corruption are usually blamed
for the predicament of those regions. However has anyone stopped think that just
maybe the reason why those regions are racked by war, political unrest and
corruption is that the carrying capacity for humans has diminished and that the
once viable population is now competing intensely for the diminished resources.
In that case how is providing more food alone going to
solve their problems in the long term? Quite simply it wont. Instead it will
promote all the problems in the region - starvation, corruption, war and unrest.
For human populations at or above the carrying capacity of
the environment it is a futile exercise to reduce the death rate by providing
more food without compensating for this by reducing the birth rate through
contraception.
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