Sure, we are too far north to ba able to support ourselves with corn completely (we live about as far north as Fairbanks, Alaska) but I was thinking about other parts of the world, like Ukraine, White Russia etc who have even better farming conditions.
As for the other part: Norwegian wealth depends largely on the oil dependency of the rest of the western world. That was the reason for the arrogance in that posting. Sorry about that. I´ve never understood why the west does not use it´s technology and wealth to become independent of oil. DagT Den 23. jul. 2006 kl. 21.38 skrev Bob Sullivan: > Dag, > You need to stick to whales and kiddie porn, > or come out and meet a 7 bottom plow in Iowa. > We have states here with more acres in corn than you can imagine. > I suspect more than all the land that can be farmed in your country. > Regards, Bob S. > > On 7/23/06, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Wow, if you are feeding a large part of the world with food it really >> explains why you are so popular, and why you have the world record in >> debt to other countries. >> >> DagT >> >> Den 23. jul. 2006 kl. 20.57 skrev P. J. Alling: >> >>> If your definition is true then you are wrong. The carrying >>> capacity >>> for the US is much higher than the current population. We feed a >>> large >>> part of the rest of the world. The US does import lots of luxury >>> foods, >>> (any fruit or vegetable out of season is a luxury by the way), which >>> require large amounts of human labor. The foods we produce are >>> those >>> that can be machine harvested and processed. The difference in >>> labor >>> cost in Mexico is the only thing that even makes importing fruits >>> and >>> vegetables remotely possible. >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>> In a message dated 7/23/2006 9:55:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>>> But even the US isn't overcrowded by any stretch of the >>>> imagination. >>>> Europe is far more densely populated. You can make a good argument >>>> for >>>> overpopulation in Europe, but not for the US or (especially) >>>> Canada, >>>> both of which have very low population density, even if much of the >>>> population tends to stuff itself into small areas of high density. >>>> >>>> -Adam >>>> ======= >>>> Overpopulation is when the land people live on can no longer >>>> support them. >>>> The US passed that point a long, long time ago. Need I remind you >>>> how the US has >>>> drained the third world of resources to keep its population going? >>>> Let's just >>>> take food. The Central Valley in California used to feed most of >>>> the US and >>>> other parts of the world as well. I don't know what happened to >>>> it, but now >>>> about all our produce comes from Mexico. Which does leave one >>>> wondering what >>>> Mexicans eat. Or where other countries will get their oil etc. >>>> when they need it. >>>> >>>> Get real. >>>> >>>> Marnie aka Doe >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> When you're worried or in doubt, >>> Run in circles, (scream and shout). >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
