<15,857,083,248 gallons. Let's suppose that number is correct that is 60 metres of water over a 1 square kilometre area or 80 feet deep over one square mile.>
Nice figuring, but that is for the lowest possible figure at this time.
What would it be for a population of 414,100,000 in the year 2050 plus the livestock to feed them?
<... just not at the current food mix, level of self sufficiency, or lifestyle probably.>
My point, can you live like that? Do you want your kids to live like that?
<There are 1 billion people living in India and a larger number in a similar sized area of Eastern China, in each case in under half the area of the lower 48 states.>
If it works there, will it work here?
The whole question came out of a report where a Texan had to turn his orchard into goat pasture because of low ground water and I think lowered ground water may be the critical issue. And that is the whole purpose of the exercise, to think ahead. I have Grandkids and I hate to think what we are leaving them.
It is stated that the Hopi Indian, when making a decision on social welfare, considered how it would effect their society seven generation from that point. That is society at it's finest. Society today can't think beyond their next BMW or bush's next war. Is this a responsible society?
No, but that is what advertising has taught you, if you don't have the latest and the greatest, your life is sub-standard. Such is the moral abyss we have slipped into.
So what can be done? Well we could have a whopper of a war and kill off several million people and have the catholic church do a 180 and do away with birth control(something that had purpose a several hundred years ago but is screwing society now). The first is more likely to happen before the second. Silly people, give yourselves a big shake. |
