Count your blessings. Warning: This may make you feel very very small. Don't worry about the world ending today. It's already tomorrow. Neuron-galaxy.jpg (JPEG Image, 1008x633 pixels) - Scaled (83%) JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure. 16456_653977526689_5811525_37884812_5086285_n.jpg (JPEG Image, 4. When I Was Five… | EVRD. Chart: A Loose Affiliation of Literary Geniuses - GOOD Blog - GO. HOW TO FEED THE WORLD: Next meal in doubt - NI 151 - Three myths. Myth one: OVERPOPULATION Actually there is plenty of food in the world. Production of cereals (wheat, rice, millet etc) last year reached 1799.2 million tons, enough to offer everyone in the world well over the recommended minimum of 2.500 calories per adult per day.
And that is before you’ve even begun to count the calories in vegetables, nuts, pulses, root crops and grass-fed (as opposed to grain-fed) meat. So what’s the problem? The problem is the distribution of that food, both within countries and between rich and poor worlds. People like us in the developed nations eat much more than we need. Americans represent only six per cent of the world’s population, yet they consume 35 per cent of the world’s resources - the same as the entire developing world.
But Western countries have enough land to support their populations - Third World countries don’t. Western countries have enough money to support their populations. But doesn’t Africa have the world’s fastest population growth? 271578.png (PNG Image, 640x800 pixels) - Scaled (65.