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You can feed yourself off of one acre, with primitive tools and basic agricultural practices. There are 1.9 Billion acres in the USA alone. With modern agricult
by dukeofdoom 6y ago
You can feed yourself off of one acre, with primitive tools and basic agricultural practices. There are 1.9 Billion acres in the USA alone. With modern agricultural technology and power of scale, the resources in the ocean, you can feed a lot of people.
This site has statistics showing that despite the population increase, the total amount of acres of farmed farm land has decreased in the last 20 years in the USA.
Its about 900 million.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/196104/total-area-of-land-in-farms-in-the-us-since-2000/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/196104/total-area-of-lan...
- uncledave 6y agoWorth considering redundancy in that as well. It’s very easy to end up with serious problems if we have even a single failed crop in one season.
- dheera 6y agoA big part of the problem honestly is that a lot of the arable land is being used to raise crops for meat production rather than direct human consumption. If the population shifted to a vegetable-heavy, meat-light diet it would be much easier to feed people with less land.
- yellowapple 6y ago> There are 1.9 Billion acres in the USA alone. Not all acres are equal. Not even within the same state; an acre in California's Central Valley is very different from an acre in California's Mojave Desert. And further, this presupposes that there is adequate water for all those acres, which - as Californian farmers have learned over the last couple decades - ain't quite true. Some acres therefore have to remain unused in order for the other acres to remain usable.