Will the World Starve1

Will the World Starve? Looking out a window upon a barren desert, a dry wasteland unfolds as a carpet to nowhere. Abandoned cities dot the horizon, as the ruins speak volumes to the once populated extravagance of a country which lived on wealth and opportunity. The vision just described is not one out of a Hollywood movie script, but one that is not only possible but probable. Currently, the world population numbers over six billion, …

…but from the chair which sees the big picture, the closeness of the new age is only around the corner. Hopefully, with scientific and social awareness, the problems which overpopulation creates will be at the best solved and at the very least resolved. The world in which the children should grow and develop should be one of hope, joy and light, not a place of barren, dry wastelands, plagues riveting the society and abandoned cities.