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- From: magnus@lglsun.epfl.ch (Magnus Kempe)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Diminishing "undernutrition" in developing regions
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.105503@lglsun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 08:55:03 GMT
- References: <18dfhlINN4j4@hal.com>
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- OK, let's complete the table with absolute numbers...
-
- In article <18dfhlINN4j4@hal.com>, howard@titan.hal.com (Howard Gayle) writes:
- :
- : Period Total population Chronically undernourished
- : (10^6) (%) (10^6)
- : ------------------------------------------------------------------
- : 1969-71 2 609 36 939
- : 1979-81 3 262 26 848
- : 1988-90 3 938 20 788
-
- No doom, then. Those who like to blindly project statistics into the
- future, should hope for an increasing population of the dev. countries,
- as it would clearly lead to the eradication of famine (almost arbitrary
- estimate: add 600 million people every decade and within a little over
- one century everything will be OK).
-
- Are the countries who moved between 1969 and 1990 from developing to
- semi-industrial or industrial status still included in the count? If
- not, the statistics would be even more positive...
-
- Now, if only the marxist guerrilla and tribal warfare would stop in
- Africa and if only India abandonned socialism... The problem is not
- food or technology. The problem is the absence of political
- freedom--and the consequent destruction of all economic, productive
- activity.
-
-
- WRT the environment: man's productive activity has the inherent
- tendency to improve his environment... if the standard of value is
- man's life--but of course not if one values germs over man's life.
-
- --
- Magnus Kempe "I have sworn ... eternal hostility to every form of
- magnus@lglsun.epfl.ch tyranny over the mind of man." -- Thomas Jefferson
-