Is water wet?
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Constant Population growth is the main threat to food security
You're confusing correlation with causation. Population growth isn't the threat, inefficiency is. We produce enough food to feed 10 billion people right now, yet 700 million starve. The problem is distribution, waste, and agricultural policy, not scarcity. India and Japan both have stable populations but food insecurity persists. Meanwhile, countries with growing populations like Vietnam doubled food production in two decades through better technology. Your argument assumes finite resources with fixed yields, ignoring how innovation responds to demand. If population growth were really the culprit, shouldn't wealthy nations with slower growth have solved hunger by now? They haven't. The real threat is treating symptoms instead of fixing broken systems.
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