On Apr 29, 1:36=A0pm, jerry <GeraldCNew...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Sams's is limiting purchases of flour to four 50 lb bags of flour. =A0I
> noticed that the stock pile of Flour is half of what it was three days
> ago. =A0It is predicted that bread will go to $7 a loaf by September.
> The general public refuses to believe that there is a global food
> shortage and cannot believe that the good old USA has a shortage of
> food. =A0We have been too fat and too dumb for too long in the USA.
> With 6 million new mouths to feed each month on this planet it was
> bound to happen. =A0Our global population growth has finally exceeded
> the growth of food production. =A0Some of you think this is a hoax or a
> laughable probability; only time will tell. =A0This situation was
> predicted 40 years ago by the College of Rome scientists in their
> Limits to Growth re****t done at MIT with a Volkswagen grant. =A0The
> Malthusian advocates said war, disease, famine, and pestilence would
> curtail the population. =A0The technocrats said that technology would
> keep up with the food supply. =A0It appears that the Malthusian
> principle is going to win with mass starvation. =A0The population has
> continued to grow at an exponential rate. =A0Remember 2.5 million people
> in 5,000 years, but that has more than doubled in the last 40 years.
> (Happy days are here again. =A0Be happy, don't worry.)
Correction: Million should have been billion.
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