Capability converted famine from a fate into a failure, and the moral change followed the technical one. Part I: agricultural specialisation has converted famine from an unmanageable catastrophe to a human mistake. About 1.3 percent of the United States population, some 2.6 million people, produce enough to feed over 300 million and export the surplus, and the world produces substantially more food than is needed to feed everyone. So eliminating famine no longer requires more food, it requires better logistics and management, and if people still starve then someone has failed. Harari's marker for the shift is behavioural: instead of saying it was divine will, we convene boards of inquiry and resolve to do better. This is the general principle that power creates duty, shown once in history rather than argued abstractly.

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converted famine from an unmanageable catastrophe to a human fuck-up. In the 1500’s more than 80 percent of the total population of many medieval societies were farmers. Yet the vast majority of the population still lived on the edge of the biological subsistence line. In 1688, Gregory King estimate

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