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AndrewGaspar on Aug 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: This Can’t Go On

World population in 1700 was 600 million, which is a single order of magnitude.

ehmish on Aug 4, 2021 | [–]

Yeah probably should have double-checked that, thanks.

You prompted me to double-check my other claim (that land under cultivation didn't increase) and that was wrong too!

According to this it's gone up by about 5x https://ourworldindata.org/world-lost-one-third-forests

Kydlaw on Aug 3, 2021 | [–]

Thank you for checking, I was dubious too about that claim.

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