Tag: great divergence
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Our ancestors did not live in balance with nature. They died in balance with it.
One of the most important observations (among many) from the late Hans Roslings' Factfulness: When a population is not growing over a long period of time, and the population curve is flat, this must mean that each generation of new parents is the same size as the previous one. For thousands of years up to…
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Why Are We Not Running Out of Farm Land?
One of the most persistent worries about population and economic growth is that we will eventually use up all our resources and land. It is based on the intuitive (but false) assumption that if it takes X acreage of land to feed a person today, then it will take two times X acreage to feed…