Although most of the rise to ten billion will be in less
developed nations, the United States and Europe adumbrate
the future for peoples that stabilize population,
raise yields, and improve feed conversion. They
foreshadow the future for peoples that have some productive
agricultural areas and trade with others. The
leveling population projections that I began with and
the rapid economic growth in such nations as China
promise that more and more nations will behave more
and more like the developed ones of North America and
Europe. So taking Alnerican and European experience
and prospects as straws in the wind
, I examine them.