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To: TimF who wrote (613442)	5/28/2011 3:23:21 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

"Its not revisionist history, and wouldn't be even if it was wrong." Sure it is. "Revisionist history would be falsely describing what actually happened" Precisely. It is a fact that there were growing famines in the third world. It was the rule at the time. Especially in countries like India. Even in the first world, some countries were just a harvest failure away from problems and food aid was getting problematic in keeping the third world fed. 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 some actual history, food production per capita for the world had been going up" Tim, virtually all of that growth was in the first world. And even there, it wasn't evenly distributed. There are lots of food materials which just aren't practical to ship any distance, especially 40+ years ago. So food production per capita doesn't tell the whole story. One of the major benefits of the green revolution is it allowed the third world to catch up in the per capita food production game. It greatly lessened the need for food aid, which was problematic at the time. "and more land would be farmed leaving less for wilderness)" Tim, it wasn't just a farm land or wilderness choice. In many places it was a farm land or places for people to live choice. Productivity in the US has gotten to the point that they amount of farm land has greatly declined, there are now more forest in this country than there has been in more than a century, despite the population more than doubling. In Europe, the problem was much, much worse, despite their much higher population density.