This is the stupidest statement I have ever seen on the Internet, and that's saying something.
Obviously, if low-tech farming could possibly support six billion people, the population would have grown to that size during the centuries when low-tech farming was practiced.
The vast majority of the world does low tech farming and yet the population of the planet has increased to what it is today.
All high tech farming does it free up people to live in cities instead of farming themselves. Just because high tech farming works in the US and a few other countries with the standard of living and moral fiber to be free, doesn't mean the whole rest of the world is supported by it.
Honestly, the quality of trolls just isn't what it used to be. What idiots....
World population started to grow in the 19th century and started to escalate in the 20th century, this was due primarily to medical advances that significantly reduced the rate of childhood mortality.
There have been SOME famines in history that were the result of droughts; however, they have mainly been due to oppression. There were plenty of famines in medieval Europe, but that was because feudalism RESTRICTED the ability of the peasants to farm the lands they rented.
Farming requires exactly FOUR things:
Fertile soil, seeds, fertilizer and water. Mankind has known this for over five thousand years and the basics have NEVER CHANGED.
Yeah screw high-tech, bro, gimme a teePee and let me squat in a slit-trench, any day..!
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The fact that you flunked basic math not withstanding? You have zero understanding of the elements of population growth.
Natural farming is the only farming that produces food. Playing Sorcerer’s Apprentice with gene splicing has yet to produce a safe, nutritious food crop. The results of such tampering has yielded imitation food that disrupts both the health of the creature consuming the crop, and the health of surrounding natural, nutritious crops.
Pigs at least are smart enough not to eat unnaturally modified corn; humans seem to lack that instinctive intelligence.