posted on Dec, 26 2017 @ 08:47 PM
a reply to:
EmmanuelGoldstein
Hunter-Gatherers had to worry about finding food, not being eaten by wild animals or being bitten by poisonous critters.
Being a farmer was an improvement on this. Having walled fields with orchards and meadows meant that they knew where to find stuff. Animals could
graze in safety. But there was still the risk of a bad harvest. Even with hundreds of farmers, one bad season could lead to starvation.
Until the agricultural revolution, the growth of a country's population was restricted by food production. Once we figured out to rotate fields to
maximize production, how to use fertilizers, this limit was broken. Even up until we had weather satellites, nobody knew when the next hurricane was
coming.
edit on 26-12-2017 by stormcell because: (no reason given)
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