[identity profile] bracknellexile.livejournal.com 2009-02-25 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I was just saying to [livejournal.com profile] is_not_well that if you put a starving kid in front of me, then yes, I'd feed it, but, as in my reply to [livejournal.com profile] anton_p_nym above, at that point you've resolved the geographic issues of person needing food and the food itself being in different places so that person is then sustainable.

Totally agree with the comment on infant mortality, education and contraception. Improve the chances that two kids will survive to adulthood from two born rather than two survivors from 10 born and you drastically reduce the resources consumed to get two more adults.