Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
I once heard someone say that until very recently, mankind has not been able to produce enough food for everyone. So the question of how to get that supply everywhere it needs to be is still a new problem.
I think that is an encouraging and exciting problem to have, but it’s still a problem.
So much fuckery impeding farmers.
Alleviate that, and we have so much headroom.
That is true. Im not expert, but new machinery, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides are the reason why we can produce so much right now, but all those come with a downsides.
Machinery is resource intensive and uses mainly fossil fuels. Electric machinery is a possibility, but it recuires rare elements and requires specialized training to make and repair.
Synthetic fertilizers need also minerals and can be almost as nasty for enviroment, same with pesticide.
I try to be optimistic, but without big leaps in technology i dont think we cant keep producing food like this forever without destroying the enviroment even more.
With global warming and the damage turning wild land in to farm land causes i think that even if we could fix global hunger now, i dont think it would last.
But that does not mean we should not aspire to do it.