THE WORLD’S VANISHING CHILDREN Throughout the world birth rates and total fertility rates are plunging faster and further than ever recorded in human history. Despite all the apocalyptic doomsday predictions of overpopulation propagandists, the fact is that population growth rates in many countries are
Thanks to the continuing increases in crop yields, the world’s farmers now actually harvest several hundred million tons more grain each year on tens of millions of acres less land than formerly harvested in the 1970s and 1980s. WORLD TOTAL GRAINS 1 MILLIONS OF METRIC
THE WORLD’S VANISHING CHILDREN Throughout the world birth rates and total fertility rates are plunging faster and further than ever recorded in human history.
Thanks to the continuing increases in crop yields, the world’s farmers now actually harvest several hundred million tons more grain each year on tens of
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