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  • From: Michael Nevin <mikepnevin@yahoo.ca>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Population
  • Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 08:18:20 -0800 (PST)

Hi - the more bodies, the more labour there is. And, the sustainable kind of ag espoused so well herein is labour-intensive, more akin to gardening. And one does not have to be too deply into Marxist theories of surplus value to realize that a worker(gardening worker) can produce more than his/her maintenance requires without radically underpaying said worker.
Cheers, Mike in Toronto


From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 3:45:58 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Population

The one way to stop "over population" is education.  In every country I have lived or worked in, the higher the educational level, the less children couples have.

I learned in Nigeria that children are "insurance for parents old age".  20% die before age 5. Other children die due to whatever.  A large number of children provides a number of children to provide for the parents in old age.  

Organic, no-till farming will support the population of the earth regardless of how high it goes.

Ken Hargesheimer





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