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by fao_ 2232 days ago
It's not the number of people, that's a fallacy. (See: Das Kapital vol 1, and http://www.henrygeorge.org/pchp7.htm)

We have more than enough resources on the planet to feed everyone(0)(1)(2)(3)(4), it is the distribution of it that is the problem.

Large amounts of food are wasted(5)(6)(7), that is a problem posed by our economic system and something that we can fix -- something we should try to fix, without going straight to Eugenics (as Malthus did, and many white nationalists do), or population control.

(0): https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/the-world-produces-en...

(1): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241746569_We_Alread...

(2): https://medium.com/@jeremyerdman/we-produce-enough-food-to-f...

(3): https://www.huffpost.com/entry/world-hunger_b_1463429

(4): https://www.worldhunger.org/world-hunger-and-poverty-facts-a...

(5): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41173771_Food_Secur...

(6): http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/flw-data/en/

(7): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-13364178