The document discusses the challenges facing food production due to overpopulation. It references biologist Paul Ehrlich's warnings from 1968 about overpopulation leading to environmental disaster and suffering. The interaction between the biosphere system and human socio-economic system has created "the human predicament" where feeding the world's growing population is a serious challenge that shows the impacts of overpopulation.

1. The Future of Food
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2. In his 1968 book The Population Bomb, biologist
Paul Ehrlich warned of impending environmental
disaster and wide-scale suffering due to human
overpopulation. He revisited this idea in a 2013
essay titled “Overpopulation and the Collapse of
Civilization.”

3. Born of the interaction between “two gigantic
complex adaptive systems”:
• the biosphere system, and
• the human socio-economic system.
“The Human Predicament”
“The seriousness of the situation can be seen
in the prospects of Homo sapiens’ most
important activity: producing and procuring
food….”