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Is it? In my dayjob I'm solving technical problems with technical means. World hunger is not a technical problem. You won't solve it with technical means. If y
by ganafagol 5y ago
Is it? In my dayjob I'm solving technical problems with technical means.
World hunger is not a technical problem. You won't solve it with technical means. If you think you can, you have already lost the fight.
Climate change is not a technical problem. You won't solve it with technical means. If you think you can, you have already lost the fight.
And so on, and so forth. Technical means can help solving certain components needed for the overall solution. These are then technical (sub)problems though. For example, how to store more energy in a battery, or how to grow certain crops with less water. But the overall problems are social in nature. People need to understand that world hunger is a distribution problem. That one is easier to solve with certain (technical) tools available, but that won't be enough. People need to understand that we can't use more natural resources than get replenished. Not a technical problem. If only the tools get better, people will find new ways to be wasteful. Etc etc.
- bobthebuilders 5y agoClimate change is technical problem. Carbon sequestering coal plants can remove all carbon from the atmosphere. World hunger is undoubtedly not a technical problem though.
- golergka 5y agoWorld hunger is rapidly being solved by exactly technical means. So is climate change. How do you think these issues are solved?
- ganafagol 5y agoWorld hunger is caused by power imbalances. That's a social/political problem. Whatever technical solution you provide helps worsening the root cause and at best keeps the status quo. We have observed dramatic technical advances in all fields related to food production in the last 3 decades. We've seen at best marginal improvements in world hunger in the same time, and even that only if you're beeing optimistic with your statistics.