Sunday, 20 June 2010

Lomborg on grain

In his book, the Skeptical Environmentalist, Lomborg optimistically  believes that we have enough grain to feed people and that this will continue. I decided to see what grain production had done since the publication of his book in 2001. Lomborg has a graph showing grain production (more or less) increasing linearly from 1960 to 2000. He also included a FAO projection of a slight increased rate of growth (page 95). I derived the graph below from Lomborg's graph and the lates FAO figures. The actual rate of growth is even higher than forecast!

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