Assignment task: The industrialized nations should not feed the people of developing countries because it will simply enable them to continue overpopulating. Then we will have to provide even more assistance and, eventually, more will suffer because we won't be able to feed them at all. Which one of the following statements, if true, would seriously weaken the author's argument?
O Recent developments in synthetic agriculture provide convincing evidence that food production can increase indefinitely at a rate higher than that of world population growth.
O A population study just released indicates that the population of one small developing country in West Africa has decreased by ten percent in the last decade.
O A Red Cross spokesman announced last month that unless industrialized nations immediately increase their aid to developing countries, record numbers of children and the elderly will die of starvation.
O At a recent conference of leaders of industrialized nations, it was concluded that it is immoral to do nothing to prevent starvation. Religious leaders in developing countries have recently issued a ban on population control measures proposed by industrialized nations