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Yeah, but they had a whole system in place for feeding their people (sorta). It’s one thing to do things inefficiently to replace nothing, but it’s another to replace a semi-working system with 10th century farming techniques.
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Exactly. Native African farmers made out just fine before Europeans showed up, I should say - and if you want to go back to feeding one-twentieth of the number of people per acre, you’ll make out just fine once again.