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It is actually not true. The global population exploded after industrialized nations developed after WW2 new types of high yield crops and then gave those away
by genman 4y ago
It is actually not true. The global population exploded after industrialized nations developed after WW2 new types of high yield crops and then gave those away to non-industrialized nations.
- Scoundreller 4y agopost-Colombian exchange, adoption of potato also helped Europe as a whole. "By feeding rapidly growing populations, [it] permitted a handful of European nations to assert dominion over most of the world between 1750 and 1950." "Because potatoes were so productive, the effective result, in terms of calories, was to double Europe’s food supply." "Routine famine almost disappeared in potato country, a 2,000-mile band that stretched from Ireland in the west to Russia’s Ural Mountains in the east." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-potato-changed-the-world-108470605/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-potato-change...
- genman 4y agoTrue, partially. But the growth was much slower over longer period of time while after 50s the population of developing nations almost quadrupled in 1/2 century. https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth