Deborah Wisti-Peterson wrote:

> i thought you all would like to read this.

Big snip.

> "The question is, Is that what we want? How many people do we want on
> this planet?"
>
> Controlling food production could be one way of controlling the
> population, according to Thornhill. "Every year we produce more than
> we did last year, and every year the population gets larger. In any
> ecological system, more food equals more individuals."

Okay, reduce human population.
snip

> Medicinal plants are particularly important, Raven said.
>
> For example, rosy periwinkle, a plant native only to Madagascar, is
> the source of a drug that makes Eli Lilly US$130 million per year. The
> drug shot increases the survival rate for childhood leukemia from one
> in 20 to 19 in 20.

I thought the solution was to reduce the population.

We could go to the other end of the age group and start producing "Soilent
Green" thereby reducing the population and providing a food source at the
same time.

Jerry Converse
Grand Coulee, WA