• Question: How will the world keep supplying food to the ever still growing population?

    Asked by puresalvation101 to Duncan, Grant, Julie, Nik, Rachel on 13 Mar 2013.
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      Grant Campbell answered on 13 Mar 2013:


      This is not an easy question to answer, and there are no easy or pleasant answers. People die, and when the food supply becomes tighter, they will die faster – there’s no escape from that conclusion. Sorry! (A guy called Malthus demonstrated this 200 or so years ago, and his logic is inescapable. This logic is also a key part of Darwin’s theory of evolution – so we can’t accept Darwin without also accepting Malthus.)

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