Plus, how exactly does population control / family planning increase world hunger?
Because, in theory, you may have just aborted the next Norman Borlaug. Then again, it is just as reasonable to guess you just aborted the next Harold Shipman.
Kit, I'm aware who Norman Borlaug and Harold Shipman are. Are you aware that this is an entirely specious argument, the gist of which had been outlined by the poster I replied to? Please also note I said family planning. Two or three kids per family, not 12.
A better link.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/business/energy-environment/14borlaug.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0Note that Borlaug was working for the Rockerfeller Foundation. If he hadn't got the job, someone else would've. Most discoveries are made, if not concurrently, in close competition. If there was no Norman Borlaug, someone else would've done it - it's been happening to varying (and astonishing) degrees across the globe for the last 10,000 years as it is.
Notably however, - if there was no Harold Shipman, not sure if someone else would've gone and done that... It's not like he was an incompetent General.
Greatness, while hugely dependent upon being in the right place at the right time, is somewhat self-selecting, and additionally, just because someone had a unique role to play in history, it does not by any means, mean that they were uniquely qualified to fill it.