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Can food production technology stay apace with a couple billion Chinese and Indians starting to eat like Westerners (lots of beef, which requires tremendous amo
by henning 18y ago
Can food production technology stay apace with a couple billion Chinese and Indians starting to eat like Westerners (lots of beef, which requires tremendous amounts of grain and water to produce)?
- req2 18y agoThat's not a scarcity problem but a scarcity of luxury problem.
- rsheridan6 18y agoScarcity of luxury is by definition a subset of scarcity, so it is a scarcity problem. Sure, we could all live on beans on rice, but people don't do that unless they have to.
- kmavm 18y agoBut Greenspun's claim is that technology has done nothing to ease Malthusian limits, and he's wronger now than he's ever been. At the time Greenspun wandered into this fray, the concern was over human starvation. The situation really is much, much better, to a degree that is hard to fully appreciate.
- corentin 18y agoDon't worry, they won't eat more than what is produced.