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. -- Cheers, Ken [log in to unmask]