2013-08-07, 05:09 AM
Satellite Wrote:I know this may sound cruel, but I don't know if completely solving world hunger would be a good idea. The problem is not that we have too little food, but that we have too many mouths. World hunger is basically natures way of saying: "There's too much of you guys, start using birth control especially if you can't afford to feed even that 1 kid"
Plain fact is, people need to stop having more than 2 kids or we'll have problems more serious than anything by now, ahead of us.
Actually food production is hardly the limiting factor. It's a matter of distribution. Countries like the US produce vastly more food than it consumes, but most of the excess doesn't go to feed starving children in Africa or whatever. The kids there aren't necessarily starving because of overpopulation. More often it's because of war, oppressive governments, or the occasional natural disaster.
If you want to talk about pollution which is somewhat related to population control you may have an argument, but the starving children aren't the ones driving Hummers around so I'm not sure you have a leg to stand on.
Overcrowding applies more to localized areas in urban cities. If these people were willing to move for redistribution, there's still plenty of land available for expansion. Canada is hardly suffering from a lack of land for instance.