Comment Re:No, It Won't (Score 1) 326
You might have a point with food supplies and resources, if we were not constantly being accused of wasting so much food feeding an nation of obese gluttons.
Assuming, just for the sake of argument, that every single American were living on 5000 calories per day. They aren't, but let's assume an extreme case.
Let's further assume that every single American could manage nicely on 1200 calories per day. They can't, but let's be extreme again.
In that case (large overestimate of food used, similarly extreme underestimate of food needed), we'd be able to feed approximately 1B more people on the food we "waste".
Which is 25% of the expected growth....
Take the greed of the 1% down a few notches
Note that the income of the 1%, if distributed evenly among the 99% would represent only about a 14% pay raise across the board. The wealth of the 1% would nearly double the wealth of the average American, if uniformly distributed.