But over the last two centuries, the world’s population has skyrocketed.
“Very true, mostly due to technology advances in medicine, food production, economic stability in the western world.
It is the same technology that can feed them if only corrupt governments would get out of the way.”
When I was a young teen, I had boundles faith that science and technology could solve any and all problems. I`m far from being a Luddite, but I no longer have that boundless faith. For every problem science and technology solves, it also creates new, unforeseen problems. The law of unintended consequences.
In 50 years or so, the world population will start to drop. Even in some Muslim nations like Turkey and Tunisia, their birth rate is below 2.0 according to CIA World Factbook.
Very true, but I'm talking about the hear and now.
The world has the ability to feed itself today, almost all the the world hungry can be traced back to inept, corrupt or discredited styles of governments
I was reading the comic book The Rocketeer, and in the preface it talked about the attitudes of the 1950s and 1960s comic books, where problems could actually be solved if only you had a rocket powered back pack. Science is a terrific tool, but it has no inherent moral value. Like a hammer, it can create or destroy, depending upon the hand that wields it.
In Steve Martin's old movie, The Man With Two Brains, there's a scene where Martin asks a mad scientist "Doesn't it bother you that all these people have died to produce your work?" The scientist responds, "If it saves one life, it's worth it!"
On a side note, I've noticed that the more preoccupied a society becomes with sex, the fewer children it produces.