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But it's not the same progress.

The technology we have today can feed 7bln people, it can feed even more.

Distribution is another issue, there isn't famine today that we cannot deal with.

There are cases that we choose not to, there is a huge difference between famine that is induced or maintained due to political instability than due to "natural" causes.

If you want to see famine you don't need to go back more than 150 years to the great potatoe famine, events like this simply cannot happen today.

If you take the 7bln people of today and try to feed them even with circa 1900 agro tech then you will see what famine is. Within a century we have solved famine and we can now feed 10-15 times the population we had 100 years ago.

If you look at the explosion of the population of the planet in the 20th century you can see how much of a revolution we have underwent.

This is why you don't see or hear about wide spread famine today. Sure there are still pockets in developing nations and even cases of malnutrition in the developed world.

But that isn't famine, it's not a natural disaster, it doesn't decimate whole countries and if we had the political will to go and fix it there would be almost no major pockets since we can resolve the few remaining parts. Food is hard to distribute when you are being shot at.




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