The camera pans over and a child comes on to the screen: emaciated, skin pulling itself tight to bones, eyes large, cheeks empty. We all feel it; the desire to reach out and change something. But there are more children like this born every day; will our efforts even make a difference?
In biology we see any organism's population is constantly trying to reproduce itself; numbers are only kept low because of predators, lack of food, and disease. Humans, it turns out, didn't like dying, and they had the brains enough to avoid it; through agricultural and medicinal tech we've gone from 1 billion people 200 years ago to almost 7 billion people today.
We've done a great job raising the bar; we haven't eliminated it.
So the question I pose to you is -can we actually solve extreme poverty? Or is this just the way life is? Will there ever come a point where everyone has enough? And what will get us there?
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