The adult human body operates at a daily minimum of nutrients to survive, and adding more bodies to the fray increases the resource load on the planet. While I

The adult human body operates at a daily minimum of nutrients to survive, and adding more bodies to the fray increases the resource load on the planet. While I personally prefer not to eat GMO food because of the uncertain effects it has on the body, at the population scale I believe it will eventually (though we don’t know when) be the case that advances in food efficiency are needed to withstand higher carrying capacity. I believe we’re already seeing the effects, with steroid/hormone use in animals, and with GMO crops. There was an HBS article the pitted Solow’s ideas on technological advancement against Malthus’ population theory. I think both would agree that if population continues to rise, efficiency will be a necessity.