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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RSKennan" data-source="post: 858378" data-attributes="member: 8256">You're right D20 Dwarf; I didn't mean that we could practically ship resources from places where they are abundant to places where they are scarce as a permanent measure. I was merely saying that greed, nationalism, and and economic barriers are the prime reasons for most of the problems attributed to overpopulation. I agree with almost every point you made; since the issue for you it seems is human nature.  Greenhouses and bioengineered foods allow for food production nearly anywhere in the world.  Additionally, the production of pharmaceuticals is about to get <a href="http://farmindustrynews.com/ar/farming_cornbred_pharmaceuticals/" target="_blank">a lot easier.</a> The previously mentioned methods of water creation and reclaimation would solve the other problems of keeping everyone alive on a daily basis. Everything beyond this is gravy. Solve the starvation and disease problem and industrialization becomes that much easier. But who's to say that if there were only 1 billion people there would be "enough resources" for everyone? I think that there would still be people starving and dying from curable disease no matter how few or how many people we have. Unfortunately, history has never shown us differrently.  We can't expect human nature to change overnight, but if more people worked towards this goal, we could move towards eradicating the inequality of resource allocation.</blockquote>

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