Almost everyone here stands aghast at my solution for overpopulation. But if the world refuses to take decisive action against overpopulation of species homo sapiens, whether through religious ignorance or ideological stubbornness, then the world must find a way to feed what will be no less than 11 billion, probably more like between 12 and 13 billion people, by the end of the century.
We have enough land available-- arable and semi-arable that could be made arable-- to GROW enough grain and other crops to feed most of the teeming masses that are born because the human race won't use birth control. But we have to stop growing so many animals. We need the land that animals graze on in order to grow grains and legumes, which are far more efficient as far as usable protein per kg, and kg of production per acre.
We need to get water to these crops. Well, farmers have been using windmills to bring water up from the water table so as to feed their animals for centuries. We now routinely build windmills with a peak output of .2 megawatts apiece. We need to use mill tech to draw up enough water to the surface to irrigate the vast new tracts of agricultural land that will be required if "the greatest nation on earth" is going to feed such an increased population, and thereby have a mandate for leadership.
We need a Marshall Plan of alternative-energy procurement and distribution. We must use the remaining non-renewable petrochemical resources to develop the energy infrastructure that must surely replace them.
England is putting up a windmill farm of 100 mills that will consistently power 200,000 homes. Well, folks, if we've got 300,000,000 people here, we also have miles upon miles of area to cover with windmills, and the latest photovoltaics and photosynthetics.
When you diminish, and supplant, the petrochemical/nuclear usage, that means less pressure to dispose of the waste products-- "the back end" that politicians are always forgetting about.
And if anyone needs a little jolt to understand the urgency of getting this done, well, Japan got another one yesterday, about 7.1 magnitude.
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