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This is the first sentence of the book: "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970's and 1980's hundreds of millions of people will starve to dea
by tanseydavid 3y ago
This is the first sentence of the book:
"The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970's and 1980's hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now."
The man should have long ago changed his last name to "Scare-lich".
- sterlind 3y agohow did the prediction turn out to wrong? like, that quote seems to imply that there was insufficient agriculture to sustain the current generation of humans, not just the next (since sufficiently brutal "crash programs" could keep the population from growing entirely.) and it's not like there was any big leap in ag sci enabling expansion, like the Haber process. like, I'm literally just confused, did he forget to carry the 2 or something?
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