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>>8661205
>I sincerely doubt technology will ever be able to sustain a population of 7 billion people
FFS
There are a 7 billion people now and the planet EASILY generates a large surplus of food.
Go to the UN's World Food Summit - they speak about this very openly. People aren't going hungry because the world doesn't produce enough food, they are hungry because they lack access and power.
According the the USDA and the UN if you were to use *organic* farming techniques
- not GMOs, not super fertilizer, totally sustainable organic farming
The American states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas could produce enough calories and varied enough to feed every man, woman, and child on the planet like a middle class American,
I was just at a conference on efficiency and a French agronomist pointed out that the food waste from French restaurants alone (i.e., the food thrown out for being old, improperly cooked, not aesthetically pleasing, etc.) is equal to the total food imports of Africa. If you took just the food good enough to eat but discarded for being not aesthetically pleasing in Europe and North America you could feed every man, woman, and child in Africa with 114% of the calories of the average American.
There is no problem with food PRODUCTION.
There is a problem with food ACCESS.

>>7166677
>Get it? I used prairie dogs as a loose metaphor because I am so terribly clever.