It did not solve human starvation. That is a problem of distribution as well as production. It did allow us to feed far more people, temporarily. Meanwhile we

It did not solve human starvation. That is a problem of distribution as well as production. It did allow us to feed far more people, temporarily. Meanwhile we will face mass starvation on a level never before seen if we can't figure out how to render agriculture viable in the context of rapidly eroding soils and changing climates within the next half century. "Increasing the technological level of the human race" is not unambiguously good if that technology levers us even further over the entropic abyss (to use Joscha Bach's term).