This is your periodic reminder that the average U.S. diet requires ~2 acres of land per person per year to grow all the food we eat, according to both the USDA (https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=98400) and our own research (https://www.sustainablefoodfuture.org/).
For a family of 4, that is ~8 acres of land. https://twitter.com/MikeKofiA/status/1504297860388560897
We’re an interdependent society of specialized labor and need each other to survive – and can’t really escape industrialized farming at some level without dramatically changing our diets.
Reminds me of touring Biosphere 2 and the scientists had no time for anything but growing food and even then were barely getting by. Also that colonizing space would take a minimum viable population to cover all the tasks needed for survival.
