And if so shouldn’t we be looking less at how we can synthetically create food to feed these burgeoning masses and perhaps more at the realities of exponential population growth on a planet with ultimately finite resources. Obviously this is a very difficult reality to face not one most would like to consider, and there are significant human rights issues to consider in attempting to control global population growth, but I think there are steps that can be taken and a campaign for greater awareness of the current and predicted future situations would be one of them.

We are essentially eating ourselves out of house and home at the moment and this isn’t remotely sustainable for the future.