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Old 03-17-2011, 08:58 AM  
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
Very true.

The reason why our food is so cheap is because of recent advances in bio-tech in the past forty years. We grow more food, lots more.

Food isn't going to be the problem in the future. It's going to be water.
We can make water, it will just be more expensive -- probably at an expense comparable in relation to per capita GDP to the expense our immediate ancestors spent on water projects.

Technology is the key to water as it was for food, and a Malthusian view of water is likely to also be wrong.
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