Humans are Outgrowing the Ability to Feed Ourselves

Thomas Malthus' 200 Year Old Prediction is Coming True

"By 2025, the world’s population will swell from 6.6 billion to 8 billion people. Climate simulations predict sustained drought for the American Midwest and giant swathes of farmland in Africa and Asia.Is mathematician Thomas Malthus’s 200-year-old prediction, that human growth will one day outpace agriculture, finally coming to pass? Advances in farming technology have kept us fed so far, but the planet’s resources are tapped."

The excerpt above was taken from Popular Science.


Here is a link to the official story from Popular Science, it's a great video depicting a solution many scientists would like to implement to solve eating our remaining fossil fuels:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1774293526/bctid1774291061

Malthus concluded that unless family size was regulated, man's misery of famine would become globally epidemic and eventually consume Man. Malthus' view that poverty and famine were natural outcomes of population growth and food supply was not popular among social reformers who believed that with proper social structures, all ills of man could be eradicated. 

This was one of the 1st posts on TAS, but it encapsulates the main reason I began this blog, so I thought it a good idea to bump it to the top.