You have to realize that these are baby steps for our civilization. Only since the 1920s and commercial fertilizer use has food become abundant to such a degre

You have to realize that these are baby steps for our civilization. Only since the 1920s and commercial fertilizer use has food become abundant to such a degree, and logistics so sophisticated that we could fathom supplying excess food to multiple entire countries. It is doubtful that the people who conceived plans for providing such aid foresaw all the consequences of their actions, because there was simply no historical precedent for such a scale of intervention. Food was scarce. Countries usually didn't have enough of it. It only seemed like the best way to alleviate that was to just _give people food_. As it turns out, maybe that wasn't the best way, but it was lieky a lesson that needed to be learned the hard way.