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by chrisco255 1782 days ago
We don't have a food shortage. Crop yields and agricultural productivity are at all time human civilizational highs.
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This is a fragile argument. Systems can often be at peak before crashing.
It's a factual argument. Our civilization has been peaking in agricultural productivity decade after decade for 200 years. Your hypothetical argument is not statistically likely. Sure, on a long enough time frame some natural disaster will occur that causes a crisis, but the fundamental mechanics of photosynthesis and ag science aren't going anywhere.