Learning Convivence in an Abundant World — Why Hunger and War Survive Plenty
For most of history, scarcity was the honest explanation for suffering. There was not enough grain, not enough land, not enough medicine, so people starved and fought over what little existed. That explanation has been quietly running out of road for decades. The world produces enough calories to feed everyone alive today several times over, and still tens of millions go hungry every year while wars that serve no one’s stated interest grind on past the point of any rational return. The bottleneck was never only what we can produce. It is what we can agree to do with it. …