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It's not the number of people, that's a fallacy. (See: Das Kapital vol 1, and http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp7.htm http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp7.htm) We hav
by fao_ 6y ago
It's not the number of people, that's a fallacy. (See: Das Kapital vol 1, and http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp7.htm http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp7.htm)
We have more than enough resources on the planet to feed everyone(0)(1)(2)(3)(4), it is the distribution of it that is the problem.
Large amounts of food are wasted(5)(6)(7), that is a problem posed by our economic system and something that we can fix -- something we should try to fix, without going straight to Eugenics (as Malthus did, and many white nationalists do), or population control.
(0): https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/the-world-produces-enough-food-to-feed-everyone-so-why-do-people-go-hungry https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/the-world-produces-en...
(1): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241746569_We_Already_Grow_Enough_Food_for_10_Billion_People_and_Still_Can't_End_Hunger https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241746569_We_Alread...
(2): https://medium.com/@jeremyerdman/we-produce-enough-food-to-feed-10-billion-people-so-why-does-hunger-still-exist-8086d2657539 https://medium.com/@jeremyerdman/we-produce-enough-food-to-f...
(3): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/world-hunger_b_1463429 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/world-hunger_b_1463429
(4): https://www.worldhunger.org/world-hunger-and-poverty-facts-and-statistics/ https://www.worldhunger.org/world-hunger-and-poverty-facts-a...
(5): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41173771_Food_Security_The_Challenge_of_Feeding_9_Billion_People https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41173771_Food_Secur...
(6): http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/flw-data/en/ http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/flw-data/en/
(7): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-13364178 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-13364178