> In 1830 it took almost three hundred hours of human labor to grow one hundred bushels of wheat; by 1890 this was reduced to less than fifty hours. Today it takes less than a few hours. Scale (Geoffrey West)
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> The battle to feed all of humanity is over in the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now and this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate... Paul Ehrlich, 1968 (via Scale)
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I’m not a big fan of indefinite optimism and assumed innovation puts, but you really can’t blame people for being skeptical of doomsday forecasts (right up until the next axe does eventually does drop)
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