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DoctorMomoustache t1_j1pg8s8 wrote

>We have seen technology going from feeding few people to feeding 8 billion people

So all those hungry people are fed? Ah, I was under the assumption that there was serious food insecurity for a lot of African countries.

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pretendperson t1_j1risk5 wrote

Read up about the technological breakthrough of extraction of ammonia from the atmosphere and subsequent extraction of nitrogen to fertilize crops in massive quantities. That alone saved the lives of billions of people - prior to that technology a famine every 10 years would wipe out millions and millions of the population of any given region.

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