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Comments from feedback form - "Excellent reference material"005:09, 17 August 2011
soon everyone will be struggling because of the prices in food.023:58, 14 June 2011
The future316:28, 15 May 2011
But Congress Said . . . 116:24, 30 April 2011

Comments from feedback form - "Excellent reference material"

Excellent reference material

184.240.185.190 (talk)05:09, 17 August 2011

soon everyone will be struggling because of the prices in food.

I have to really think and be careful when I go the grocrey store.

4.79.20.186 (talk)23:02, 14 June 2011

The future

We're in store for a lot more than this. The UN predicts we'll add 1 billion people within the next 15 years, and another billion by 2045. We'll need to end the gluttonous lifestyle of the west and have another green revolution... or we'll all be eating bread made from insects.

SweetNightmares (talk)19:24, 17 April 2011

Amen. Another topic that "torques my jaw." Overpopulation. We need to stop telling ourselves "it'll be all right" and start talking about population control. There are too many of us now, and yet the majority of people have no idea. Years ago (the late 1960s) I used to hear about Zero-Population Growth, now apparently no one wants to talk about it, let alone do anything about it. Two kids per family and everybody eats is way better than "octomoms" and everyone going hungry. We are NOT running out of people, we're running out of places to put them and ways to feed them.

Scarabrae (talk)13:54, 18 April 2011

hopefully AIDS will create a good balance and see to the problem of overpopulation in Africa. 156.8.251.250 (talk) 16:20, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

156.8.251.250 (talk)16:20, 30 April 2011

That's rather a cruel way to solve the problem. I do hope you are being ironic. Both AIDS and over-population are helped along by our unwillingness to keep our knickers up until we've taken responsibility for the outcome. Also, Africa isn't the only place that's over-populated. Any place where people are going hungry, the population has overshot the available food. We need to think global (yes, the United States, too) birth control and we need to do it now.

Scarabrae (talk)16:28, 15 May 2011
 
 
 

But Congress Said . . .

And yet Congress, in it's supposed wisdom, declined to give the yearly cost-of-living increase to Social Security recipients for 2011 on the grounds that there was no appreciable rise in the cost of living. Say what?!

Scarabrae (talk)16:09, 17 April 2011

And the Obama administration is supporting incentives growing food crops for biofuels.

Mattisse (talk)16:24, 30 April 2011