HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-27 months agoHow much agricultural land and how many workers laboring in agriculture does it take to support large modern cities?message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareHow much agricultural land and how many workers laboring in agriculture does it take to support large modern cities?HarryLime [any]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-27 months agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWilsonWilson [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·7 months agoNYC pop 8.468 million ~ 10,500,320 acres us pop = 331.9 million ~ 411,556,000 acres world pop = 8.1 billion ~ 10,044,000,000 acres using .5 hectare estimate
minus-squarecontext [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 months ago world pop = 8.1 billion ~ 10,044,000,000 acres or about 40 million square km, roughly 3 times the size of russia
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 months agoYeesh and yet you have bazinga brains asking for a billion Americans.
minus-squareDolores [love/loves]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agothere’s 15 billion acres of land, and this doesn’t count the sea or ancillary resources like urban farming, i assume. just to keep anyone from taking this data in a malthusian direction. 1 billion americans (as they are now) is a nightmare
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoAgreed. I think capitalism hinders the adoption of those techniques though, and the billion Americans people are also all capitalism worshipers
minus-squareWheaties [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoI would imagine in practice there’s some overlap – like, an acre of agricultural land meeting some fraction of input to several cities at once
NYC pop 8.468 million ~ 10,500,320 acres
us pop = 331.9 million ~ 411,556,000 acres
world pop = 8.1 billion ~ 10,044,000,000 acres
using .5 hectare estimate
or about 40 million square km, roughly 3 times the size of russia
Yeesh and yet you have bazinga brains asking for a billion Americans.
there’s 15 billion acres of land, and this doesn’t count the sea or ancillary resources like urban farming, i assume. just to keep anyone from taking this data in a malthusian direction. 1 billion americans (as they are now) is a nightmare
Agreed. I think capitalism hinders the adoption of those techniques though, and the billion Americans people are also all capitalism worshipers
I would imagine in practice there’s some overlap – like, an acre of agricultural land meeting some fraction of input to several cities at once