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Greyhawk and "Low Magic" : Why Low Magic is in the Eyes of Beholder
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<blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 8080362" data-attributes="member: 6895991"><p>We could eventually feed nowadays earth population if:</p><p></p><p>- Everybody and his mother and I mean every last sod would become mostly vegetarian</p><p></p><p>- Big food tech companies are allowed to run rampart with genetic biologic engineering (w/o care of potential consequences to the ecosystem) to maximize crop output</p><p></p><p>- And most important: People stop having 10-20 children of which 9-18 survive to adulthood but instead having about 2 to maintain current populace.</p><p></p><p>I know that all three things are unlikely to happen and I know that just with the available vegetable resources you haven't got enough to feed todays populace, accept that it is a fact. no way around it. For todays food output and style earth population is 150% of what is supported, that is fact.</p><p>The underlying numbers assume you need 100yards x 100 yards per person to feed him which is quite accurate, and also that you use all fertile soil available (which is also limited and which is a known size). To give you some additional numbers : Because we want to eat meat also (I for sure do!) today Europeans need about 4,5 x10.000 of said square yards and Americans need about 10x 10.000 square yards.</p><p></p><p>Edit : Because that seems to be the elephant in the room overpopulation is THE problem number 1 for hunger, disease and environment.</p><p></p><p>It arises from to little education especially of women in some countries as well as from the fact that in some countries having many children is the only though way of having someone who cares for you when you are old. But this thinking derives from a time when out of 10 children only 3 would make it to adulthood.</p><p></p><p>The sarcastic thing about that is, that in countries with a working social insurance children are a source of poverty for their parents (who have to pay a lot for their children e.g. education), whereas in countries which rely on children to care for the old they are considered wealth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coroc, post: 8080362, member: 6895991"] We could eventually feed nowadays earth population if: - Everybody and his mother and I mean every last sod would become mostly vegetarian - Big food tech companies are allowed to run rampart with genetic biologic engineering (w/o care of potential consequences to the ecosystem) to maximize crop output - And most important: People stop having 10-20 children of which 9-18 survive to adulthood but instead having about 2 to maintain current populace. I know that all three things are unlikely to happen and I know that just with the available vegetable resources you haven't got enough to feed todays populace, accept that it is a fact. no way around it. For todays food output and style earth population is 150% of what is supported, that is fact. The underlying numbers assume you need 100yards x 100 yards per person to feed him which is quite accurate, and also that you use all fertile soil available (which is also limited and which is a known size). To give you some additional numbers : Because we want to eat meat also (I for sure do!) today Europeans need about 4,5 x10.000 of said square yards and Americans need about 10x 10.000 square yards. Edit : Because that seems to be the elephant in the room overpopulation is THE problem number 1 for hunger, disease and environment. It arises from to little education especially of women in some countries as well as from the fact that in some countries having many children is the only though way of having someone who cares for you when you are old. But this thinking derives from a time when out of 10 children only 3 would make it to adulthood. The sarcastic thing about that is, that in countries with a working social insurance children are a source of poverty for their parents (who have to pay a lot for their children e.g. education), whereas in countries which rely on children to care for the old they are considered wealth. [/QUOTE]
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