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Throughout history population growth has proceed at a relatively slow pace, from approximately 250 million people in A.D.1 to 500 people by 1650. within the past 300 years, however, our numbers have increased dramatically, doubling in ever shortening cycles, so that by 1930 world population stood at 2 billion and a brief 48 years later at over 4 billion. If population growth continues at the present rate, wholesale replica designer handbags, it will put enormous pressure on world food supplies, making it difficult, if not impossible, to avoid hunger and starvation on a massive scale. Despite all the triumphs of agriculture in the twentieth century, population. Hundreds of millions of people in Africa, Asia, and South America lead lives dominated by hunger and malnutrition, and we are adding 75 million people by the year 200, according to one expert, the production of grains must be doubled, animal products quadrupled, and fruits and vegetables tripled. The probability of accomplishing such goals is not high, given the uncertainties of weather and the difficulty of raising sufficient capital to finance such efforts.
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