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This really brings up the question of the ultimate carrying capacity of the world. Anytime you see graphs that hockeystick they eventually plateau and stagnatio

This really brings up the question of the ultimate carrying capacity of the world. Anytime you see graphs that hockeystick they eventually plateau and stagnation is usually caused by mass famine, disease, or other catastrophic circumstance; potentially war in the case of human beings. We haven't reached that point in any countries yet, and when the US/Europe throws away half of harvested food at the point of sale, I think its probably not something to worry about in the immediate. However, particularly with China just removing their 1 child per family policy, it looks like we may reach one of these issues sooner than later, probably not in our lifetimes, but I don't think too far off.

valarauca1 11y ago
Human still hasn't fully modernized/mechanized farming on the India Subcontent or Africa. Humanity has a lot of ground to cover before we starve.
- merpnderp 11y ago
  The Japanese get the most production per hectare of land. The rest of the industrialized world isn't even close. Humanity has a lot of ground to cover before we starve.
  - mc32 11y ago
    Do you have a source for that, my impression was that many of those family farms were rather small and inefficient, but I could be wrong.
    - merpnderp 11y ago
      Looks like my data is outdated and the US has caught up. Here's what it looked like the last time I was interested in this material: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.YLD.CREL.KG?page=3&order=wbapi_data_value_2013%20wbapi_data_value%20wbapi_data_value-last&sort=desc http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.YLD.CREL.KG?page=3&or...