Also don't forget that 40% or some horrifically large proportion of food produced is wasted. That's a great deal of scope for slack.

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Agree agree. Misuse of resources is the key problem. New systems required.

Black Swan fallacy. And I never claimed to be Malthusian so please leave your tar brush at home.

Also you may note that my criticisms are aimed directly at the current broken systems under utilizing and abusing our agricultural and water resources. We absolutely have enough land and water to go around, but the way we misuse it is going to have the extraterrestrial archaeologists digging through our powdered bones and plastic wrap shaking their heads in sadness.

That's fallacious thinking. Just because someone made incorrect predictions doesn't mean that the trajectory is incorrect. Clearly, at some point along the path of exponential population growth we will experience diminishing returns in the yields of engineering efficiencies. Ultimately, we really are dealing with a zero-sum game.