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I'm no expert, but China has much, much less arable land than Europe. Something needs to finance industrialization, and in preindustrial times, food was finance
by fsckboy 5y ago
I'm no expert, but China has much, much less arable land than Europe. Something needs to finance industrialization, and in preindustrial times, food was finance because that's what supported a growing population.
- gota 5y agoIsn't that largely offset by cultivating a lot of rice, that being so much more efficient as a crop? What other things are at play, for example, in Japan's bonkers hight population across history?