Yeah, but then there is the whole eating people thing... It's just not energy efficient...

Soylent Green was overly dramatic and unrealistic...

Think algae, insects, underground vertical farming, etc.

There is really only one problem to solve here...

It's energy... Figure out cheap energy and cheap energy storage and most of the problems go away...

Well that, and getting rid of the greedy people on the top that are willing to literally walk over dead bodies all day long... that much of it is 'Soylent Green' like, but then again, we been there for a long time already...

Energy and logistics... We grow way more food that we need to feed everyone on Earth, but when 30% of it is thrown into the trash because it's inconvenient to feed people because it won't generate a profite to the few people on top, you know where the issues are... and they're not with not being able to actually feed people.

Shit goes back way earlier than that... We've practically known about this since the 1970s, only we're really good at ignoring anything in the way of inconvenient facts.

Same here and thank whatever deity you subscribe to for that!

I do worry about all the young nieces and nephews I have that are born into this crap and will just have to suffer through it.

We really don't have to do anything...

Diseases like Covid will eventually take care of overpopulation.

It's nothing new either... Even I 30+ years ago in basic high school biology we were taught that monoculture invites disease...

None of what we're going through now is anything we didn't know 40-50 years ago.

As a species we're just experts at complacency and ignoring everything that doesn't impact us directly...

It's going to catch up to us one way or the other...

Pure altruism I'm sure...

Did you know Germany is the second largest foreign aid provider in the world according to the OECD?

Excuse me???!! When exactly has the US ever given a single flying fuck about being fair to any other nation, rather than just bullying them to get their way?!

To whom?

The simple fact that you're still rating India as a third world country kinda says enough here...

When has the US ever improved the lives and economy of second world nations not bowing down to US economic interests?

I mean, the US just usually engages in overt/covert regime change is things don't go their way economically...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

Elaborate? What written agreement on what? What trade deal? What anything?

Again, if the US is no longer willing to pay the cheap rates for outsourcing their IT, it's only to the benefits to US workers actually being able to ask for better wages...

I'll happily wait for US companies actually wanting to go that route though...

Considering the US has been aggressively outsourcing their IT services to cheaper countries like India...

First of all US companies don't want to pay their workers a fair share, so would be reluctant to pull back, and second of all it would only help US workers in salary negotiations...

Now go start some unions.

Oh boy, everybody is going to love this comment, but...

Seems a little one sided here...

Now, I'm not a Modi fan, but why exactly should India allow cheap US made crap to enter their country to directly compete with the cheap crap the can make themselves?

On the Telecom/Internet side, India hardly needs US monopolies to take over their own thriving IT ecosystems.

India does well in safeguarding their own economy here and slow the progress of mostly needless foreign imports at their own detriment.

United Fruit is neither a company nor a history to be emulated again in the 21st century.