with the worlds population exploding as it is, can the united states feed........?
361008
Well in a capitalist system there are many losers the US government is a money making government that has its own agenda its not about you, look how our country was developed and the principles of their wealth. A person can have a vision but the person will need labor/money to achieve that vision so now that slave labor is no longer legal they must us the next best thing paid slave labor, people forced to work for minimum wage or less like many USA born citizens migrants they have no choice at the time so they will slave for the crumbs and no one thinks anything about it because we know they are getting paid the American workers need to wake up,our children's lives are at stake, we need to curtail the migrants movement and force the push on minimum wage
1146179
I would say yes, its very remotely possible.  If the world oil reserves somehow proved to be way, way smaller than anticipated, and we suddenly ran out of petroleum.  That would pretty much change our way of life, probably forever, as most other real energy sources that could keep industry up and running are a good number of years away from being realized.
506763
Hypothetically speaking, I'm not entirely sure the world will exist in 10 years the way current world affiars are going what with the nuclear tension in Iran and North Korea...But I predect the economy will be better if we're still around.
364813
yes.\ni would even go so far to say that are likely to become the next world "hyper" power. (the US is the first recognized hyper power country and was so some time after the fall of USSR)\nchina has said for a long long time they were tired of being treated as a second rate country and were going to emerge as a superpower.  the three gorges dam was just one of many things they started doing to boost themselves.\nthey definitely have a goal and there is no sign that they will reach it.
508094
if by 'our' you mean USA, then yes. Quite a while, bye the way.
242711
Not for a very long time rest easy. Since China artificially manipulates its currency and economic system, it will take some major changes to give it the real shakeup.\n\nfor your question, US should continue to be a world power atleast till 2080 followed by China and India. India will eventually takeover China by late 2090 to be the world's 2nd Superpower. By 2120, India will be the Largest Superpower, followed by China and US.
1144949
Absolutely.  There is plenty of oil, enough to last for 100's of years.  Actually if you look at it logically, we will never really run out of oil.  Supplies will dwindle, we will tap into other sources, like oil shale, and oil sand, but the production cots will go up.  Eventually we will get to a point, where the cost is high enough, to make alternative energy sources, profitable.  Once that happens, competition and the free market system will find a cheap efficient substitute, and we will leave oil usage to the third world.
43221
USA is very powerful!
757772
I think there's a screw loose in all humans that acts as a form of population control. This, of course, is aggression. For all the sickness and famine and natural disasters, we're still spreading across the globe in a hurry and the failsafe to keep our numbers down is war. Nasty, but it seems to be the case. I could suggest alternatives (Olympic-style competitions to attain land or what have you) but I doubt anyone would adhere to them. Perchance the best hope we have is space travel, whereby the human race can spread as it needs to and will have less need to club each other to death for the sake of a patch of dirt.
253459
Yes...they say eventually with a single cell, you could produce the world's annual meat supply. And you could do it in a way that's better for the environment and human health. Considering all the  diseases spread by animals ( asian brd flu, mad cow disease, ect. ) it doesn't sound like such a bad idea.  They still have a long way to go though...so far what they have gotten has turned out like mush...and even after they get something that turns out right it will be a long time before the US Food and Drug People get through with all their approval testing were anything can be placed on the market.
688162
In regards to Bush leaving, it depends on who would replace him. As for the world being better off with out the entire USA, I guess much of the world would have serious financial problems considering how much money, food, and aid the USA gives to everyone else.
1077615
Yes, absolutely.  it's man's nature to expand his horzons.We have the whole universe to colonize/ Can you imagine, no more overcrowding??
421130
Yes. Help end world hunger. Check out www.thehungersite.com\n\nLet everyone you meet know about it.  It is FREE way to feed starving people all over the world.
1005445
Yes we can, and yes we will.  There is a finite amount of fossil fuels in the world.  We certainly have more (a fair bit more) then the doomsayers would have you believe, but eventually they will run out.  Before they run out, the price will go up, and up, and up, until alternate clean sources of energy become marketable.  This will happen, it's simple economics.  In the mean time we, as a country, should be pushing to increase our domestic supply, and start now with serious research on how to create a new usable transportable source of energy.  I'm personally like the idea of hydrogen burning engines.  They're combustion engines like you have in your car, but they burn hydrogen, and emit water (h2o), that's their exhaust.  The only trick is you need alot of electricity to separate the hydrogen from the O2 in the first place, and we don't have a safe fuel tank for transport yet.  In the mean time, write your congressmen and senators, let them know this is a priority of yours and that it is a priority for our country.  Talk with friends, and increase awareness.  I work in the oil field, and trust me, I certainly recognize that our country, our planet needs to be thinking of the future.
483006
You are so hot AND you think about this stuff.\nAnything is possible.\nThe whole country changed from the actions of a handful of people.\nHave you seen some of the quarantine plans to deal with Bird Flu?\nThere are theories that the very top of the power pyramid want population control.\nThat really means a reduction in world population by 80%\nNever allow implanted tracking chips.\nOh sure in 50 years (or less) it may be called money.
19193
the population of united states at this time is 295,734,134\nthe world at this time 6,482,257,297\nexact pop???? not possible since people are being born and dieing at any given moment
1030787
I'm afraid you asked a loaded question.  I don't believe humanity *can* survive exponential growth of its population for very much longer.  I don't know if our species has years or decades remaining... but it seems unlikely we have centuries unless we make drastic changes.\n\nAs I look, right now, the world population, according to my source below, is 6,627,722,573.  \n\nI agree with what little I know about Albert Bartlett's views on population growth.  For years I (and many others) have said that unchecked growth is a grave danger.  We simply do not have the material resources of fuel (for transportation and electricity) and food -- and ultimately space -- for population to continue to grow indefinitely!\n\n'People, people, and more people' is the engine at the root of a great deal of what is wrong with the world, and is arguably responsible for a dwindling enjoyment of life on this planet -- Earth  is of limited size, after all.  \n\nTake *unchecked* population growth to its seemingly-absurd but perhaps inevitable conclusion -- we are so physically restricted that we can no longer even move.  Or maybe we run out of food long before then.  Or growing stress and intolerance has sparked a global war.  Or a new or mutated virus has destroyed hundreds of millions of people in a matter of months, thanks to our close quarters and constant global movement.\n\nIronically, it might be a virus that saves us -- or, at least those of us who survive.  Freed of the need to compete for food and whatever fuel generates our electricity, they would at least have *some* of the resources our ancestors did.  Of course, even those things may be scarce if that global conflict I mentioned sparked a nuclear war.\n\nBut besides all the doomsday scenarios that could happen, our quality of life must suffer -- must already be suffering -- from our incessant reproduction.  Unless we live in the ever-dwindling rural areas of the planet, we are increasingly bombarded by noise, rudeness, superficiality, the tick of the clock, and the intolerance of our ever-closer neighbors and highway "companions" (erroneously implying they are pleasant to be around).  The person in the next car or house probably feels the crunch of space and time just as we do, and stress is a growing problem.\n\nWhere there are more people there is more anxiety and fear, more intolerance of rudeness -- and more rudeness! -- more consumption, more noise, more constant construction and change, leading to increasing interruptions to our movement, and an increasing sense of instability... more stress (which is a catalyst for further reductions in many of the aforementioned areas)... and... less peace of mind, less fresh air, less reasonably-priced and readily available food (at some point), less awareness of nature (the sound of a stream having long been drowned out by the honk of the horn and the rumble of the engine; the chirp of a bird having been obscured by the chirp of the Nextel, and the violence-inspiring thump of the boom car)... I could go on and on.\n\nI believe we are causing our world to evolve (or at least change; evolution implies improvement) faster than we, ourselves, are evolving.  That strikes a dangerous chord in my mind.\n\nThis is to say nothing of the other species--plant and animal--we share the earth with.  There is a need for them, too, not to mention a birthright of survival for every animal on earth!  \n\nI'm not as sure as I once was that we are heading toward these terrible conclusions... population growth isn't the rule in every country of the world.  Indeed, there is a dwindling population in some places, and I wish I could say where, but I don't know.\n\nBut spend some time in a national park -- some real, quality time during which you *begin* to get a sense of what peace of mind is about, and how beautiful the *entire* planet once must have been -- and then tell me we don't have to pay close attention to the