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It's also pretty shortsighted to underrate human advances in adapting their abilities.



That’s not the point. What good is the ability to grow enough food for everyone if we arbitrarily withhold it from them?

I’d argue patching a system that values the very few over the many is not an advancement.


It's hardly a solved problem, but it's getting much better.

Wordwide undernourishment rates went from 19% to 11% from 1991 to 2015. [1]

Another couples decades of human progress and starvation will be rather rare. :fingerscrossed:

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/hunger-and-undernourishment


The numbers are positive and I respect your optimism.

I have nothing to add but wanted to say that.




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