You should come to Honduras, I think you would be very unpleasantly surprised about your climate and farm land views. Also with the over population.
You should come to Honduras, I think you would be very unpleasantly surprised about your climate and farm land views. Also with the over population.
The problem in Honduras is probably bad public policy. There are densly populated places like Holland and Hong Kong that are still rich. Those places, too, have little farmland yet still find ways to trade and eat well. It could be the same in your country.
No if there is any problem it's bad private policy, most of the good land is being used by private companies and individuals to plant african palm, another part is being screwed by open pit mining, and I'll let you know something, if it wasn't for 1.5 million Hondurans who have emigrated to the US, Canada and Europe we'd probably have people starving to death, just imagine we don't have to feed 1.5 million and on top of that they send dollars to at least make the economy stumble forward. Overpopulation is a real problem, land can just maintain a certain amount of people and then that's it, you start having food shortages, look at Japan they have had to control their population levels or they would be up shit creek. And even now due to having such a large population their economy once the greatest (not biggest) in the world has had 20 years of stagnation.
Sorry, but this is simply not the case. Hong Kong and Amersterdam are incredibly crowded and yet there is no problem on account of not having enough land to support them. So long as trade is possible, i.e., there is no bad public policy, people can specialize in something besides agriculture and acquire food in exchange. Look at Singapore, Dubai and Switzerland, too. If you read Simon you will find clear evidence that more minds make life better, not worse. Humans find ingenious new ways to cope with greater population such that all become richer, not poorer. That fact is revealed throughout history, even though it may seem counter-intuitive to you and people like Paul Ehrlich and Al Gore.
How do you know I am like Al Gore (of whom I've heard) or Paul Ehrlich (of whom I've never heard)? I find when people have few arguments except what they've heard they start making comparisons, I think this is to show their lack of even knowing what they are talking about. There are hundreds of millions of people whose only and sole problem when they wake up is to see if they can find something to eat so if as "Simon says" more minds make life much better why don't these people happen to make their lives better? They live very close, for example in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, which by the way are densely populated but are extremely poor and have had episodes of mass starvation, could it be that they don't have the resources for it, or do you think food is "attracted" with your mind?
While there are cultural influences that matter, as Weber pointed out, rent seeking and other public policy-driven maladies are the biggest culprit when people are hungry. Human minds on net bring more benefits and solutions than problems. Food is more plentiful today than it has ever been before.
And very poorly distributed, because people are really dying of starvation and yet the western countries throw away food, you just have to go to a fast food place at closing time.