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"Peter Webb" <webbfamily@DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message 
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>> Unless starved, humans breed without bounds. The over allocation of water
>> carried out by the NSW government has been for growing export crops
>> rather than food security.
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> Food security!
>
> ROFL.
>
> Australia already exports 2/3rds of its food production. Given we grow 
> enough food for about 60m people, and we only have 21m people, food 
> security is not an issue for Australia.
>
>

# Odd.  I heard recently that Australia now imports a lot of its food; 
possibly due to arable land on the urban fringe being covered by new 
domestic dwellings.
   (Doncaster and Templestowe, Vic. were orchards; as was East Kew prior to 
that - from personal experience.)
   Maybe we still export wheat, but often tinned food in the supermarket is 
labelled - "Made from local and imported produce".
   If Murray-Darling goes, there are plans for the tropical North, or 
Tasmanian South, to become "the food bowl")
   Human population increases geometrically; arable land arithmetically - 
which is likely to win?
   The Sahara once bloomed; the Amazon Jungle is next candidate for 
desertification?
   Brazil now has a Green Party (too little, too late?).
   For still more fun, watch the Mekong....