Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "Can Global Food Production Keep Up With Population Growth?" video.

  1. Overpopulation is not an issue if only current number of people is taken into account, but it should be number plus growth rate. We would not have an overpopulation problem if number of people was the same, but growth rate was 5 times smaller. Also, it is not simply overconsumption, it is economic inequality! That is the main problem! And if you value wild ecosystems and over species and biodiversity, you may actually see, that even if we eradicated overconsumption and inequality totally (which I doubt is possible), and if population growth was zero, then with current number of people and current technology we would still damage wild nature a lot, simply in order to feed and give comfortable life to everyone. I don't know about you, but for me it is unacceptable.
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  2. This cannot be done on individual level. If you value your health, then you are not going to eat something which is at least starting to turn bad, because even small risk of infection is bad enough. So what that for someone in rural Ethiopia this piece of food would be "good enough". For me it is "bad enough", and I can't send this piece of food to Ethiopia in time. So, that is why throwing less food by individuals won't be achievable, because people are going to always be extra picky when it comes to their own food and their kids' food. Industrial problems, however, can be eliminated.
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  3. The point is that sooner or later it will become unsustainable, if growth of population, consumption etc. continues, then producing enough food one day will mean being beyond our limits. Overshoot-collapse trajectory is inevitable with infinite growth paradigm, and new technology can only postpone the inevitable. So, economic inequality is the biggest problem, but so is the paradigm of endless economic growth, which "should never stop" in current system. It need endless growth or production, consumption and population, which together will be a recipe for disaster. Read articles by William E. Rees... He and many others question current paradigm of growth
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  4. Also, the fact that other species and natural ecosystems are lost, for me at least, are bad enough! They don't matter less than humans
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