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When we stop breeding like rabbits, there will be enough food and water for everyone
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When we stop breeding like rabbits, there will be enough food and water for everyone
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I just listened to a radio program on PRX called Whatcha Gonna Do When The Well Runs Dry. Whatcha Gonna Do When The Well Runs Dry? In these days of hearing the "drill, drill, drill," mantra, isn?t that title deceiving? Wouldn?t you think you were about to hear a commentary on the fact that our oil reserves are finite and that most of the people now alive will live to see the oil powered engine become a thing of the past? But this story was about water wells going dry. Fifty or perhaps 60 years ago I recall seeing an ancient, tattered Weekly Reader that said that we were running out of water. But many of us in many sections of the country are still getting along nicely because, unlike oil, water falls on us from the sky on a regular basis. The world does have a problem which creates the water shortages and hunger and pollution, and the destruction of the economic base in small communities...
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