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I don't think "Food crops cannot sustain the current human population" is the most accurate. I think adding on an "indefinitely" or something similar would be more accurate. The problem is that there's plenty more land and resources that could go to crops, but it's more of a problem of how sustainable it is long term.
Topsoil erosion could outpace soil conservation especially with synthetic fertilizer, but if people aren't getting food now or in our lifetime then it's not caused by an inability to grow enough crops. It's caused by companies being driven by the profit motive. It's more profitable to let food go to waste than get it to people who can't afford it.
Currently the technology is there to make more than enough crops for everyone, but how sustainable that is in the long term is not something that has been a priority. If more effort is put into making factory farming actually sustainable, which is the way things are starting to go although pretty gradually, then the only thing stopping people from getting food is the incentive to destroy/ let it rot rather than take any potential loss from not artificially inflating prices
How about this correction, then: "Food crops can only be sustained for some period of time at which point it won't affect me and in that case it might as well be 100% sustainable because I completely lack empathy or attachment to humanity."
Echoing malthusian sentiments of "there's not enough food for everyone" is not helping anyone.
Pointing out the actual problem which is that big farms that exist right now aren't there to get food to people they are there to make money and they don't care if it's sustainable or if anyone gets to eat, is what I did. You're the one glossing over that.
I have accurately assessed the problem that you are attempting to ignore, I gave no potential solutions but if you want one then just reduce meat consumption and production (preferably through regulations and tax incentives) which will reduce crop usage by maybe 20-30%.
Even in a perfect socialist utopia without greed The Fields Are Not Sustainable. If human population stays where it is or grows again then there will be no other solution than reducing the population through child policies or similar measures, or famine will be inevitable.
Despite your fantasy world, the fields are not sustainable.