On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:37:18 -0500, Amadeus Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> and allows ever increasing human population (cf Daniel Quinn).
>
>This is  a major problem of today and
>I couldn't say something against.
>
>Hunting gathering populatons had a low limitation to the population, they
>couldn't become so many. Low limit, mostly because of resources I think.
>
>Farming populations have a ...higher limit to the population.
>Farming populations won't increase forever. They have a limit in the
>available resources too. The limit is just higher as for huntergatherers.
>And about to be reached in the near future.

But I think that the point of the analyses that I see (such as Daniel Quinn's),
is that agriculture allows population to grow to a level where it has negative
environmental consequences - prior to the population reaching its resource
limits.


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Cheers,

Ken
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