Nine: Dr David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8 billion people

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Nine: Dr David Denkenberger on how to feed all 8 billion people through an asteroid/nuclear winter

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If an asteroid impact or nuclear winter blocked the sun for years, our inability to grow food would result in billions dying of starvation, right? According to Dr David Denkenberger, co-author of Feeding Everyone No Matter What: no. If he's to be believed, nobody need starve at all.

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