I’ve seen large sums of money put in terms of how many times it could solve the world hunger crisis. For example, the defense budget is blank amount which could solve world hunger 5 times over. How do they actually come up with this price? Is there really a permanent way to solve world hunger?
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I’m going to attack the second question from a different angle from the rest, and I’d have to say: No, there is no *good* permanent solution to hunger.
Assuming that you can solve the problems of production, distribution, and politics, it’s very difficult to get people to stop having kids. Population goes up, there are more people to feed, and, eventually, you’re going to run out of space to grow food. You can push that limitation back by growing food in more and more difficult places like in climate-controlled buildings, but you’ll eventually run out of resources to build and manage those buildings.
On the other hand, generally speaking, it’s possible to delay the problem for a few more generations, which is the best that can be practically hoped for in most major problems.
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