Really you have to outlive 99.9999% of the population to have a chance at surviving as a hunter-gatherer. Industrial agriculture has increased our population well beyond the actual carrying capacity of the land.
That might not be enough nines. There’s a lot of humans.
Industrial agriculture has increased our population well beyond the actual carrying capacity of the land.
We could feed everyone on earth with a fraction of the food the world produces, capitalism forces most of it to be thrown out because someone can’t make money from it. Just go look at the dumpsters behind every grocery store, restaurant, etc. - they will be full of food that the store has deemed unsellable.
Yeah, that’s another whole kettle of fish, but you are right. And it is sickening when you learn about intentional measures being used by various businesses to prevent dumpster diving/freeganism.
They don’t just do that with food, by the way…IIRC, the “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” doc covered both purposefully ruining food and consumer products…
Really you have to outlive 99.9999% of the population to have a chance at surviving as a hunter-gatherer. Industrial agriculture has increased our population well beyond the actual carrying capacity of the land.
That might not be enough nines. There’s a lot of humans.
We could feed everyone on earth with a fraction of the food the world produces, capitalism forces most of it to be thrown out because someone can’t make money from it. Just go look at the dumpsters behind every grocery store, restaurant, etc. - they will be full of food that the store has deemed unsellable.
Yeah, that’s another whole kettle of fish, but you are right. And it is sickening when you learn about intentional measures being used by various businesses to prevent dumpster diving/freeganism.
They don’t just do that with food, by the way…IIRC, the “Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy” doc covered both purposefully ruining food and consumer products…
Yup, especially shoes and clothes.
Yeah, but we couldn’t feed everyone in the world if we had to rely on the natural environment.
There’s just too many of us and not enough good living areas, so we’re stuck in the trap of agriculture.
99.9999% of the current world population is just under 8,000 people.
Yeah, definitely at least another 9
sorry i meant that backwards, 8,200 is how many folks are left if you remove 99.9999% of the population!
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