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This is partly true, but is not helpful. The goal is for nobody to go hungry. By increasing crop yields in the most common staple crops, we have a clear techn
by Blahah 11y ago
This is partly true, but is not helpful.
The goal is for nobody to go hungry.
By increasing crop yields in the most common staple crops, we have a clear technological engineering problem to solve and various ways to approach it, all achievable. This allows more food to be produced more cheaply in the areas that need it most.
If we refuse to produce more food until the food that is already produced is distributed evenly, many people will die or go hungry because the socio-political problems are very complex. There is no engineering solution to them in sight.
By all means let's try to solve problems of inequality. But let's also try to feed people as soon as possible by whatever means are available.
- marktangotango 11y agoFeeding the world isn't a tech problem, it's a public policy problem. Blows my mind how little people know about this.
- Blahah 11y agoIt is clearly both, which is what I said above. Synchronising the entire global economy is harder and less tractable than engineering photosynthesis, so we should be working on both (which is exactly what we are doing).