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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP (renner )
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Starvation and population (moved - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 22:28:44 EST
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uiucdcs!renner    Feb  2 18:33:00 1984

   /***** uiucdcs:net.politics / dciem!mmt /  2:02 am  Feb  1, 1984 */
>  If having more food means population growing at a faster rate,
>  how come the countries with the lowest population growth are
>  those with the most food?

Because those are the countries with the most wealth.  In this context (and
in most others), wealth == technology.  The way to truly end starvation is
to help the backwards countries get the technology they need to feed
themselves.

Scott Renner
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