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second, we are being misled into thinking that many poor nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America are successfully coping with their runaway population growth.
Both assumptions are wrong.
The United States has a serious population problem; the vast majority of the hungry nations have an even more serious one.
Yet nearly all nations, the United States included, lack any sort of population stabilization program. Most do not want one.
Unless people lower the birth rate (or nature raises the death rate) the world's population will quadruple during the lifetime of many of us now reading this page.
This insupportable growth is not the result of an increase in the birth rate. It is the result of a precipitous drop in the death rate, with no accompanying drop in the birth rate. It takes no special foresight to see that birth rates must come down, or death rates' will climb to what used to be considered "normal".
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that the world can no longer rely on U.S. food aid gifts or concessional sales to fill the world food gap.
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