ptr...if you work hard enough at misunderstanding something, you will ceratinly succeed.

We send the 'third world' huge amounts of food which we grow in the US. Food grown here is a more expensive and energy-consuming that the same crop grown in, say, Africa. We also use huge amounts of aviation fuel and/or gas/diesel to deliver it 1/2 way accross the planet.

If the world, as a whole, would settle on a plan for zero population growth, we could work on many problems, not just oil depletion. Read war, polution, etc. Every baby born, no matter where, pushes the solution these problems farther away.