Can food production technology stay apace with a couple billion Chinese and Indians starting to eat like Westerners (lots of beef, which requires tremendous amounts of grain and water to produce)?
But Greenspun's claim is that technology has done nothing to ease Malthusian limits, and he's wronger now than he's ever been. At the time Greenspun wandered into this fray, the concern was over human starvation. The situation really is much, much better, to a degree that is hard to fully appreciate.
