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>There are fewer people (as a percentage) starving There are more people (in real numbers) starving than ever before. Looking at this in terms of percentages i

• pixl97 9y ago
  >Looking at this in terms of percentages is misleading Um, per capita is the important metric. If there are 2 million people on your planet and 1 million of them are starving, then in a few generations there 100 million people and 2 million of them are starving you have drastically reduced the rate of starvation. Malthusian predictions of the past have said that the rate of starvation/bad things happening would increase as the population increased. It has not.
  • wu-ikkyu 9y ago
    >Um, per capita is the important metric. The true number of starving people is not an important metric?