Are you a selfish bastard?

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1355337]

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[andrewducker]

There's enough food to feed everyone, easily.

It's just not evenly distributed.

Also, you're dividing the world into "us" and "them" - an inherently selfish thing to do. If you're fine with that...

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

I'm not so sure that's true any more. Last time I looked about 5y ago we'd just had the first year where total calorie ouput was - just - less than total requirement. Be interested if you dig out figs with the Long Dry affecting Ozzie output, EU floods,, biofuels, and population nudging 7bn.

Capacity is still high enough, but we'd need to eat less, and less meat. Trend is all wrong there tho' with the BRIC protein shock. But I've not seen good data so don't know how big these have got.

(The main point stands tho' - most starvation is about other factors.)