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The Green Revolution of the 1960s proved that we could - that Malthusian claims were BS. What we have now is those same Malthusians actively sabotaging the roots of the Green Revolution by shutting down energy and means of production. Technically mass murder.


The Green Revolution proved we could increase crop production through additional inputs, not magic. We moved the constraint from local soil conditions to global resource extraction.


> Malthusian claims were BS

The Green Revolution merely raised the ceiling massively higher. It did not perform any magic to make it permanently vanish.


Women choosing to have less children is the other half of the failed mass starvation predictions. World’s population will peak this century and start to decline. We currently produce enough food to feed 10 billion, if waste is accounted for.


> those same Malthusians actively sabotaging the roots of the Green Revolution by shutting down energy and means of production. Technically mass murder

I don't suppose you'd like to expand on this argument or back it with any sort of substance?


Do we also get to describe carbon-polluting energy generation in the same terms? As 'technically mass murder'?

What's your suggested next step? Line up the 'technical mass murderers' against the wall?




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