the number of people needed to do it is also strikingly smaller for many domains of food production.
If you wonder what real stories everyone's overlooking while focusing on the controversy du jour, here's one: https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/735516102705446912 …
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@MaxCRoser the rate of productivity improvement is declining though http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/04/the-great-stagnation-in-agriculture.html … via@tylercowenThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It's not clear to me how good it is to reduce the land needed to produce food, nor how bad it is to factory farm.
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It's good if you were worrying there wasn't going to be enough farmland, as people were when I grew up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb …
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fallow land dropped precipitously as well, which, afaik, can only be accomplished with petrochemicals
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hurray for GMOs
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Those of us who live in flyover country and track bushels per acre know this story pretty well.
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@sapinker has a lovely paragraph about this in "Better Angels":pic.twitter.com/9a6pzv4tex
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@MaxCRoser Look out the window next time you fly over the northeast and notice the forests. 100 years ago they were fields.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’m seriously starting to suspect rule by distraction is a thing. No other explanation for trans toilets & other such non-topics.
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