HarryLime [any] to askchapo • edit-211 months agoHow much agricultural land and how many workers laboring in agriculture does it take to support large modern cities?message-squaremessage-square21 fedilinkarrow-up128file-text
arrow-up128message-squareHow much agricultural land and how many workers laboring in agriculture does it take to support large modern cities?HarryLime [any] to askchapo • edit-211 months agomessage-square21 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her]hexbear7·11 months agoYeesh and yet you have bazinga brains asking for a billion Americans. link
minus-squareDolores [love/loves]hexbear4·11 months agothere's 15 billion acres of land, and this doesn't count the sea or ancillary resources like urban farming, i assume. just to keep anyone from taking this data in a malthusian direction. 1 billion americans (as they are now) is a nightmare link
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her]hexbear3·11 months agoAgreed. I think capitalism hinders the adoption of those techniques though, and the billion Americans people are also all capitalism worshipers link
Yeesh and yet you have bazinga brains asking for a billion Americans.
there's 15 billion acres of land, and this doesn't count the sea or ancillary resources like urban farming, i assume. just to keep anyone from taking this data in a malthusian direction. 1 billion americans (as they are now) is a nightmare
Agreed. I think capitalism hinders the adoption of those techniques though, and the billion Americans people are also all capitalism worshipers