Is it an effective way to solve the world food problem (in other words, to eliminate famine in mankind) by increasing food production?
On the face of it, yes, of course.
Oh, don't jump to the conclusion that quickly. Thomas Malthus was not infallible. There is at least some evidence that we are already producing enough food to feed everyone on earth - just that there is so much inequality in the distribution that some have a surplus of supply while many others hardly have any to fill their stomach. Warfare, dictatorship, and inappropriate exhaustion of natural resources are the main reasons of hunger, not that we have no crop of a sufficiently high yield at hand.
The same argument was, as you may note, put forward by many of us as the explanation of coal mine incidents or railway disasters in some rapidly advancing countries.
But, when you think of it again, aren't these human problems originate from too many people competing for limited resources?
Alas, it becomes a philosophical question.
PS. I cannot recollect who made this intelligent remark:
Everything happening to you have been fixed by the eternal arrangement, and, with all the intricate causes, you and your destiny will be intertwined together and turned into another form of existence.
Maybe Georg Hegel.
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When everyone is worrying about this remote threat of genetic engineered soybean, no one cares about the genuine threat of pollution, that we are breathing toxic air and eating toxic food everyday....
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