If I recall correctly we currently have the enough resources to care for 10 billion people—the issue is instead about distributing those resources.
I think many of the issues you mention (shortages in food, water, natural resources and land) are also mainly down to poor management of our finite resources. Just to illustrate this with an example, at the moment the leading cause of deforestation and water pollution is animal agriculture; it uses 83% of farmland while producing only 18% of calories. The animals also consume a lot of the world’s food (most of which is already edible for humans). Around 70% of soy is fed to animals raised for meat. All that to say that we don’t have to make difficult decisions about who to save, when we can change how we manage our resources and save all (in theory, granted it’s much easier said than done). I’m new here so I’m not sure how to paste my source but the study I’m referencing was by Poore and Nemecek, University of Oxford in 2018, and it’s one of the most comprehensive studies on food distribution to date.
If I recall correctly we currently have the enough resources to care for 10 billion people—the issue is instead about distributing those resources.
I think many of the issues you mention (shortages in food, water, natural resources and land) are also mainly down to poor management of our finite resources. Just to illustrate this with an example, at the moment the leading cause of deforestation and water pollution is animal agriculture; it uses 83% of farmland while producing only 18% of calories. The animals also consume a lot of the world’s food (most of which is already edible for humans). Around 70% of soy is fed to animals raised for meat. All that to say that we don’t have to make difficult decisions about who to save, when we can change how we manage our resources and save all (in theory, granted it’s much easier said than done). I’m new here so I’m not sure how to paste my source but the study I’m referencing was by Poore and Nemecek, University of Oxford in 2018, and it’s one of the most comprehensive studies on food distribution to date.