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Cypher@lemmy.world 1 day agoFood is only one factor, and no one has the right to dictate the diet of others. Food is a core part of culture, and destruction of culture is one of the definitions of genocide.
Housing, transport, pollution, these are all problems at such collosal scales given the size of the human population that it simply isn’t sustainable.
The sooner that humanity returns to a more sustainable population the better.
There’s a long way between our surplus of food and food insecurity.
Food insecurity is mostly a logistics problem when examined globally. There is no solving that without an increase in energy usage.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
But there’s about enough housing for everyone too… Just that it’s of houses are sitting empty across Europe, North America, and China.
And lots of the food wasted in those places (minus China) is imported from places with less food security, such as Brazil, India, and Morocco.
So it’s almost like the energy use and infrastructure is already part of the problem and solving it would take less.
My point is that Malthusian was never correct, and the problems are ones of distribution. Not number of humans. (And Malthusian worries tend towards genocide naturally, that they’ve been shown consistently to be wrong should make them doubly suspect.)