Steven - you argue like a Jehovah's Witness. Whenever I raise any tricky questions with them, they reach for an article in The Watchtower. There seems to be a fear of individual thought, of engaging one's own critical faculties... You posted Hardcastle already. I wasn't convinced first time around. Human needs - let alone wants - are greater than mere food.

I have a link for you, taken at random from some of the sort of stuff I read these days - the article happens to be lying on my desk.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320718313636
Amusingly, it's a 'free access' article... But if you read it, and think a bit about the implications for your world of 'free access', I would be interested to know whether you are able to reconcile what the environmental sciences are telling us about what is happening to the biosphere with your belief system. Of course, if you can respond with your own thoughts rather than just links to SPGB screeds from years gone by, so much the better.