[gapan]

I never supported the idea that we should turn our backs on modern technological advances. Of course these have improved our lives.

But going back to your example, why are you trying to rationalize the fact that now two children are dead from hunger? If anything, the overall economic growth in your example and all the additional available resources should have made certain that not even a single child died.

And yet, here we are, with more that 8 billion people on the planet, all our technological advances and all the resources that we have and still, 1 out of every 10 people on the planet faces hunger. There is no sugar coating this. It is a tragedy.

[FredPret]

They're only dead because they got to be born first. It's not like modern agriculture reached out and killed them on purpose.

Richer mothers are better able to plan their families and tend to restrict it to a number of kids they can feed. The answer is, and always will be, exponential growth.