Quote (Vio-Lewis @ Wed, Jan 28 2009, 10:00am)
That's the whole point of the topic though. It's about whether our population can grow big enough such that there is not enough food to sustain it. You admit it yourself that it can happen (in the bolded part)...
However, if you're saying that it won't completely wipe out our population, then I agree. But that wasn't the point of the topic. A "catastrophe" doesn't necessarily mean the complete eradication of the human population.
To both who said that I admit that it could happen after saying it couldn't:
Read the "This could only happen if" line. That's what I meant regarding the 2nd sentence. I probably should have re-ordered it before posting.
So yes it could happen if there were a large catastrophe, but only for a short time period before things balanced out again. If things progress as they have been, it won't. Although what you may have is large populations who don't get enough nutrition and are running around with kwashiorkor.