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NoMoreNicksLeft
6 months ago
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World Population Estimated at 8 Billion
By count or biomass? Biomass is low, doubt it goes past fractional one percent. Count might be interesting, row crops can be really dense.
naveen99
6 months ago
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i guess its around 2% by biomass. But 38% of earth land surface is devoted to agriculture.
https://www.fao.org/sustainability/news/detail/en/c/1274219/...
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Just trying to guess at carrying capacity of the earth.
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