Exactly to your point about wealthy civilizations needing to want to use their excesses for good... we had an agricultural revolution in the 70s and rather than

Exactly to your point about wealthy civilizations needing to want to use their excesses for good... we had an agricultural revolution in the 70s and rather than feed the starving we just continued same old. Now we're losing topsoil, fertilizers derived from fossil fuels, stable climates to grow crops, pest/weather resistance, and nutrition. And we 4Xed the global population in the meantime.