/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2013758
>but will the new sources support populations of 7-12 billion souls
You seem to be implying that the global market will be strained by humanity's inability to provide for the poorest among us. But we both know that isn't the case. Millions die every year from malnutrition. If resources dwindle to the point of it being nearly impossible to support 10 billion people then 2 billion poor people will starve to death, but production capacity will remain relatively the same. Those 2 billion died instead of another 2 billion because they had the least ability to pay for food, which means they didn't have jobs, which means they deaths mean relatively little for global production capacity.

tl'dr - starvation affects those who produce the least