The Global Food Challenge
In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus forecast that it would be impossible to improve wheat yields as fast as people made babies. This Malthusian Crash was staved off in the 19th and 20th century but perhaps he will be right two centuries late, for I believe that the human race will lose its capacity to feed itself in this 21st century.
12 April 2007
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