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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@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

world pop = 8.1 billion ~ 10,044,000,000 acres

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

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeesh and yet you have bazinga brains asking for a billion Americans.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Agreed. I think capitalism hinders the adoption of those techniques though, and the billion Americans people are also all capitalism worshipers

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

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