Cornucopian

Cornucopians and Neo-Malthusians have contradicting points of view on the issue of population growth and world hunger. Cornucopians believe that technologies can progress and improve to increase the world’s food production and keep up with the rate at which the world’s population is growing. Neo-Malthusians, instead, believe that we should first address the problem of world population growth in order to decrease the world’s hunger problems. These two contradicting opinions are based on the same world issues but create almost completely opposing solutions. This brings up the idea of the new Green Revolution and if it will solely consist of preventing population growth or if it will include increasing the rate of food production. Paul Collier’s article, Put Aside Prejudices, approaches the problem of food production from a cornucopian perspective. Collier builds his argument based on the …show more content…
He addresses the opinions of those opposing genetic modification. “Genetic modification is analogous to nuclear power: nobody loves it, but climate change has made its adoption imperative.” This makes his argument appear stronger more thought-out. He also admits that genetic modification cannot independently solve the world’s hunger problems, but is an important progression that is necessary to our world. This too makes his argument appear more realistic and agreeable. Collier mentions in his article that the population may be growing too drastically for increased food production to make a sufficient effect on the world’s hunger problem. This essentially contradicts the argument that he spent the entire article composing and makes it seem less reliable overall. A possible opposing argument that could be made towards Collier is that population control is a smarter long-term solution to global