Norman Borlaug says "no."
"Thanks to improved farming techniques, fertiliser, irrigation, genetic modification, and innovators like Norman Borlaug, humanity has massively reduced the amount of land required to feed a person."
More life-giving trends here.
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In the interests of strong-manning (the opposite of straw-manning) our opponent's argument, there's likely some natural limit to how much food a given piece of land can produce, once fertiliser, water and other variables are optimised - that we may well be close to now. In addition, there is usually a cumulative negative environmental effect that comes from such optimisation. For instance, NZ is one of the best places in the world for producing milk and our dairy farmers apparently lead the world in efficiency, but it has come at the cost of declining ground and river water quality.
I'm not saying 'degrowth' is a good thing. The challenge most developed nations will face in the future will be declining, not increasing population. Just acknowledging the above reality.
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