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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (184945)	4/11/2006 8:11:15 PM
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Hello Mqurice, If food supplies were doubled, things would be hunky dory in Africa. It's not overpopulation, it's under-nutrition. If we could just solve that pesky food and shelter problem, we wouldn’t have to keep sending aid to third-world countries.<g> The crux of the book “Collapse” was that societies have failed throughout history because their methodologies were unsustainable. Methods that allow some societies to thrive in one region could quickly exhaust the resources in another. The colonization of Australia is one good example: the lack of rainfall and suitable vegetation doomed sheep herding in the dryer areas of the country. There are many similar examples in the book. IMO, we need to find sustainable methods tailored for individual areas on our planet. Total human happiness would be increased if both food quantity [in the right place] and quality were improved. Yes, I would agree. My preference would be to first diminish the human suffering of malnutrition and pestilences through food and medicine, then work on improving farming techniques, build infrastructure for distribution of goods and sanitation facilities and then focus on family planning issues – pretty much in that order.