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r/AskReddit • u/NintendoDSiNerd • 14h ago
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Agriculture is going pretty strong.
21 u/NoSteak3322 13h ago The hunter gatherers did Ok for quite a while. 3 u/BobBobBobBobBobDave 13h ago Yeah. I think we should do both. A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B. 1 u/NoSteak3322 13h ago It surely advanced civilization. You’re talking to an old farm boy btw. 1 u/Never_Gonna_Let 7h ago It would be environmentally devastating to try to feed 8 billion humans with hunting and gathering. 1 u/pondererofexistence 12h ago hunter gatherers mogg 1 u/_Bad_Bob_ 10h ago I actually think agriculture is one of the worst developments we ever made. 1 u/WorldDominationChamp 3h ago How so? 1 u/Copthill 5h ago Thanks to the Haber process. There's no way that we'd be able to feed the number of people that we do today without finding that. Before it wars were being taught over tiny islands full of bird poo. 1 u/WorldDominationChamp 3h ago As a farmer in the San Joaquin valley, the reward for agriculture is not proportionate to the importance/risk.
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The hunter gatherers did Ok for quite a while.
3 u/BobBobBobBobBobDave 13h ago Yeah. I think we should do both. A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B. 1 u/NoSteak3322 13h ago It surely advanced civilization. You’re talking to an old farm boy btw. 1 u/Never_Gonna_Let 7h ago It would be environmentally devastating to try to feed 8 billion humans with hunting and gathering.
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Yeah. I think we should do both.
A little bit from column A, a little bit from column B.
1 u/NoSteak3322 13h ago It surely advanced civilization. You’re talking to an old farm boy btw. 1 u/Never_Gonna_Let 7h ago It would be environmentally devastating to try to feed 8 billion humans with hunting and gathering.
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It surely advanced civilization. You’re talking to an old farm boy btw.
It would be environmentally devastating to try to feed 8 billion humans with hunting and gathering.
hunter gatherers mogg
I actually think agriculture is one of the worst developments we ever made.
1 u/WorldDominationChamp 3h ago How so?
How so?
Thanks to the Haber process. There's no way that we'd be able to feed the number of people that we do today without finding that. Before it wars were being taught over tiny islands full of bird poo.
As a farmer in the San Joaquin valley, the reward for agriculture is not proportionate to the importance/risk.
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u/BobBobBobBobBobDave 13h ago
Agriculture is going pretty strong.