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How much agricultural land and how many workers laboring in agriculture does it take to support large modern cities?

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Just curious, figure someone on here will know

Edit: Thank you all for the great answers.

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context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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world pop = 8.1 billion ~ 10,044,000,000 acres

or about 40 million square km, roughly 3 times the size of russia

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iridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.net
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Yeesh and yet you have bazinga brains asking for a billion Americans.

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Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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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

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iridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.net
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Agreed. I think capitalism hinders the adoption of those techniques though, and the billion Americans people are also all capitalism worshipers

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Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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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

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