>A lot of areas that are now declared as poverty zones today may have been poor in the past, but were self-sufficient and self sustaining. everthing was on a r

>A lot of areas that are now declared as poverty zones today may have been poor in the past, but were self-sufficient and self sustaining. everthing was on a razorthin margin, just a minor floods or droughts could kill double percentage of the population and they werent that uncommon, hence the monstrous birthrate. An analogy in animal realm is population of animals dependent on variable inputs of "food sources", their population graphs are always a rollercoaster