# Contested concept: technical solution

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: Hardin's definition builds in the conclusion that value change is required, hiding whether supply-side innovation can address overpopulation.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/technical solution` (data: `/concept/technical solution.json`)

## Senses in use
- **Requires only changes in natural science techniques, with little or no change in human values or morality** — used in 3 claim(s)
- **Any scientific or technological means of expanding supply (farming the seas, new wheat)** — used in 2 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothi…](/claim/claim_022a0e8e9a7a.md) _(sense: Requires only changes in natural science techniques, with little or no change in human values or morality)_
- [[Most people who anguish over the population problem] think that farming the seas or developing new strains of wheat will solve the problem…](/claim/claim_5309ccb353c0.md) _(sense: Any scientific or technological means of expanding supply (farming the seas, new wheat))_
- [No technical solution can rescue us from the misery of overpopulation.](/claim/claim_6015e0932779.md) _(sense: Any scientific or technological means of expanding supply (farming the seas, new wheat))_
- [The dilemma of steadily increasing military power and steadily decreasing national security has no technical solution.](/claim/claim_ca3cc986ea49.md) _(sense: Requires only changes in natural science techniques, with little or no change in human values or morality)_
- [The population problem, [as conventionally conceived,] cannot be solved in a technical way, any more than can the problem of winning the ga…](/claim/claim_ca6a7e1605dc.md) _(sense: Requires only changes in natural science techniques, with little or no change in human values or morality)_