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>yet everything we actually need to survive is intact. There are fruit on trees, water is still flowing and drinkable, boars still roam the forests This is com
by keewee7 4y ago
>yet everything we actually need to survive is intact. There are fruit on trees, water is still flowing and drinkable, boars still roam the forests
This is completely wrong. The natural biomass is not enough to support 7.8 billion people. Without modern industrialized food production the vast majority of people are going to die.
- causi 4y agoYes. Even rolling agricultural technology back a hundred years would require killing off fifty percent of the population.
- dotancohen 4y ago> rolling agricultural technology back a hundred years would require killing off fifty percent of the population. Only 50 years! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice
- _0w8t 4y ago[dead]
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoWhat machines were you planning to plant and harvest that wheat with?
- _0w8t 4y agoAnother example is farmers in Belarus during WWII. Often the whole villages together with tools and machinery if it was any were burned down due to heavy fighting. People survived by living in dugouts and planting potato’s by hands. Potato in especially suitable in such situations. It brings more calories per area than even rice while one still can harvest it using basic sticks. While it cannot be stored for years after the harvest as wheat, it still can last for couple of years.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoI think population density is a poor comparison simply because the amount of space the US has that people aren't screws with the density numbers. New York City won't be able to find a field somewhere and subsistence farm.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoAs I understand it, it wouldn't even matter, because they'd drown in their own shit first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_waste_management_system#Sewage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_waste_management...
- quickthrowman 4y agoHow are you going to grow, harvest, and transport food for 8 billion people without mechanized agriculture or transportation?
- nashashmi 4y agoNatural biomass is not enough to support a specific kind of diet for $7.8 billion. It still is enough to support all kinds of diets for humans and animals. Walk outside of the bubble we have invented for ourselves.
- ben_w 4y agoBefore the invention of the dynamo electric generators, human population was about 1 billion. A lot of our crops are now fertilised by chemicals that either made with assistance from, or transported with assistance from, or dug up by equipment made with tool that run on, electricity.