It’s bleak, but I’m pretty sure we’re headed towards some form of collapse in terms of food production.

Right now we’re fighting over fossil fuels and rare earth metals. Those are solvable problems, you can have civilization with none or just a small amount of theses things, and renewable production will mean that you can have energy without needing fossil reserves or fissiles in your soil.

But I think the next several decades are going to be defined by the international dealings that will occur over arable land, the elements to keep it fertile, and the infrastructure and water sources to irrigate it. Up to and including wars.

The simple fact is, farming is getting harder. For now, the technology is keeping up. Corporations in the relevant industries prioritizing profits and intellectual property over national food security also isn’t helping.

And even though there’s theoretically more than enough land on earth to feed all currently living humans, there are already individual countries with more people than what their land area can feed.

Worse, there a countries who share the same sources of water, who are increasing their water use in ways that will cause droughts for their neighbours.