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"At present there are five and half billion of you here, and, though millions of you are starving, you’re producing enough food to feed 6 billion. And because you’re producing enough food for 6 billion, it’s a biological certainty that in three or four years there will be 6 billion of you. By that time, however (even though millions of you will still be starving), you’ll be producing enough food for 6 1/2 billion – which means that in another three or four years there will be 6 1/2 billion. But by that time you’ll be producing enough food for 7 billion (even though millions of you will still be starving), which again means that in another three or four years there will be 7 billion of you. In order to halt this process, you must face the fact that increasing food production doesn’t feed your hungry, it only fuels your population explosion."
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, a novel published in 1992 that reads true, and seems incredibly prescient now, looking back.
