[quote=Eugene]Nonsense. There’s no overshoot, we can feed 50 billion on this planet without breaking a sweat.
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I agree we can feed more than the world. But why are a billion starving?
“‘Overpopulation’ is a reality, but only in the context of the carrying capacity of the present political economy in this world of extreme inequalities, and not the alleged carrying capacity of the biosphere….Overpopulation’ is not the fundamental driver of global inequalities and widespread misery;, it is, rather, a symptom of the unsustainability of this world economy dominated by capital reproduction taking priority over the needs of humanity and nature. Even now there is still enough food produced globally, both in calories and nutritional content, to potentially feed everyone (Boucher,1999), although this mode of production has huge negative impacts on people and nature. Hunger and malnutrition are the results of existing political economy
not any real shortage of food.”
Though, 50 billion is pushing it by about 5 fold.
As far as overshoot – as I said “consumption” overshoot as in all industrial products, terrible practices and such. I did not label it a “population”overshoot – many do, I don’t
If you look at renewable resources we are using them at almost 40% greater than they can be regenerated. That is over consumption. There is no peer review in the last 30 years that does not agree that we are over consuming and in ECOLOGICAL overshoot and doing serious damage .
