I think the best way of looking at the whole situation is through demographic transition.
The world population won't increase for very much longer...and of course in many areas it's reaching or indeed well into the decline phase.
Rather than advocate or strategise for an unnecessary Malthusian mass kill-off (and some unfortunately indeed do ...)any plan to provide food and avoid famine must effectively align with that transition. In effect we must stay within a framework that maintains those elements in any society which constrain population naturaly rather than those which maintain a high population unnaturaly.
There's room for a plurality of approaches there...so lets hope the ideologists will let us live long enough to get over the top of the population curve and that we can have a gentle down the other side.
-The weather is awful here btw: mudslides at al. Hope you haven't been blown of that hill yet....
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