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To: dybdahl who wrote (65108)	8/9/2010 9:51:54 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217662

Excellent point! Food regulated population nrs. Overpopulation is to be blamed for many more outcomes than it is acknowledged. This monring I explained to Experiment that: Colonization of the God Forsaken countries ended because it was no longer profitable due to the rapid increase of population.- I wrote: Africa backwardness: The lands discovered by the Europeans - Brazil is no exception were all underdeveloped. Brazilian indians were in the neolitic. African were in the bronze age. Populations were very small in the discovered lands between 1500 to about 1850. Besides they were decimated by the contact with Europeans who had resistance to germs because they had had contact with animals (pigs, cows, sheeps, chickens and goats). Africans and S. American Indians had no domesticated animals, thus had not been infected and neither acquired the resistance to the germs. See the book I have there: "Guns, Germs and Steel" It takes a couple of centuries to slowly acquire the resistance. Once they did populations increased rapidly. The population increment, was helped by the Europeans who increase food production and brought some better hygiene and some medical care and development of drugs, vacines etc. Once the populations in the countries colonized increased beyond a certain point, it was no longer profitable to have them as colonies. More mouths to feed they started asking for more of what was produced. More mouths to feed More crowds to control More resources for security But that increase in numbers of mouths to feed, legs and arms, did not translate into more productive capacity. It was more a burden to be carried by the colonial masters. By early 20th century the colonial powers started granting them independence. Left by their own device those new countries deteriorated. They were governed by despots, plutocrats an dictators more interested in having a good life themselves and not interested in the overall welfare and development of their populations.