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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (613618)5/29/2011 2:27:47 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1583413
 
Precisely. It is a fact that there were growing famines in the third world. It was the rule at the time.

I didn't say there was not, again I described what would have happened, not what happened, so wrong or right, its not revisionist history.

But the actual history was that food production per capita for the world had increased over time, for a long time, before the green revolution. That's history but not revisionist history. Its well known truth, beyond reasonable dispute.

When you are just one bad harvest year away from disaster, that means it is going to happen. It is just a matter of time.

For local disasters yes. Hundreds of thousands of deaths yes, maybe even millions if things are particularly bad. Not hundreds of millions, and certainly not hundreds of millions as a certainty. Remember the Ehrlichs didn't claim that there could be famine if we had a bad year in the 70s. They didn't even claim there would be famine in the 70s. They claimed that there would definitely be massive famine killing hundreds of millions and spreading across the world. Even per capita food production increases had kept to its old growth rate and not accelerated with the green revolution his actual prediction was over the top and unreasonable.
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