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> Fritz Haber set that future by on a different course by solving one of the greatest problems humanity ever faced: How to feed the world. He didn't solve it.
by abainbridge 9y ago
> Fritz Haber set that future by on a different course by solving one of the greatest problems humanity ever faced: How to feed the world.
He didn't solve it. He just delayed the problem for a while. Solving it requires stopping the exponential growth of the human population.
- nabla9 9y agoHuman population is not growing exponentially anymore. Human population growth rate peaked 1962 at 2.1%, and it has been slowing down since. Even remaining population growth is a big problem, but using he word 'exponentially' to describe growth that is slowing down and is most likely sublinear is not accurate.
- abainbridge 9y agoYes, sorry, you are right. I still think we might have a nicer planet if Fritz had invented a (humane) way to prevent the exponential population growth we had in the 20th century, instead of a way to support it.
- cdoxsey 9y agoA lot of people don't know this but birth rates have fallen dramatically: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility We will soon have the opposite problem in many countries - an aging population with no base of support.