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In a world where hunger is still an unsolved problem, burning food for fuel is not just unethical, it's downright stupid.
by Florin_Andrei 9y ago
In a world where hunger is still an unsolved problem, burning food for fuel is not just unethical, it's downright stupid.
- clementmiao 9y agoThe counter argument there is that hunger still existing is not so much a product of there not being enough food as much as the food not properly being allocated. There is easily enough food produced in the world to feed everyone as is.
- Leader2light 9y agoHunger is solved, in any country that is not a shit hole.
- brokensegue 9y agowow. chronic hunger is still a problem in the first world. i hope you are trolling. either way i hope you are banned.
- dang 9y agoWould you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We eventually ban accounts that do this repeatedly. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- geezerjay 9y ago> In a world where hunger is still an unsolved problem At best its only a problem in specific locations and due to political problems. I don't believe its reasonable to demand that progress in renewable energy adoption should be aborted just because some nation on some random corner of the world is experiencing political problems.
- empath75 9y agoHunger is a distribution problem not a food shortage problem. There’s more than enough food being produced for everyone.
- sien 9y agoLook at the trends: https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment Even in sub-Saharan Africa under nourishment has gone from ~35% of the population in 1991 to ~18% today. It's a problem that is being solved.