3 ms·
By that logic because we have extended life expectancy with hygiene, education, medicine and global transport that we should be producing less resources per per
by sqeaky 10y ago
By that logic because we have extended life expectancy with hygiene, education, medicine and global transport that we should be producing less resources per person.
Lets look at food for example: https://ourworldindata.org/food-per-person/ https://ourworldindata.org/food-per-person/
Well that clearly isn't the case... Something subtle must be wrong with your clearly intuitive observation. I think the cost of educating and raising the next generation to the point where they are productive and having them to relearn the lessons of those that died early is simply more costly than what it takes to support an aging population.
- abakker 10y agoYes, but the production is not evenly distributed among every person. Really, the people who are actually farming are getting much more productive, but because they are better able to manage resources. However, there is probably a limit on the absolute yield per acre, as an example. It may yet be double what we do now(which is double what we did in 1970), but most farmers I've talked to think that they probably won't hit the FDA's target of doubling yield/acre by 2050. Managing soil chemistry is too problematic. It is simply hard to add back enough mass to the ground as we extract in food/year.