Primitivism

From the change wiki

The idea that we can return to hunter-gatherer societies (or abandon technology in general), is probably not sustainable, not green, and not viable for our global population of nearly 8 billion people. Here's some evidence why:

  1. Back when hunter-gatherer societies were the main mode of living, the global population was less than 1/10th of what it is today.
  2. Agriculture was invented because it was more productive (per unit of land) than hunting/gathering.
  3. Today, hunting & fishing restrictions are needed to prevent animal extinctions from over-hunting and over-fishing.
  4. Indiginous people (...)( or more specifically, people who get the majority of their food from hunting, foraging and fishing; most of whom are indiginous ) are less than 5% of the global population.

All of this points to one likely truth: It takes too much land to feed a person via hunting, fishing and/or foraging. Agriculture (...)( which doesn't have to be monoculture, by the way ) is the only way to feedgenerate enough food for today's global population.

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