A few references relating to all this
- Eastern European Sourcebook (IIRC) says Poland went from 36 million population to 9 million (25%)
- Leg's note of only 3% left in Silesia is from Black Madonna, I think?
From Wikipedia: Fertilizer
Inorganic fertilizer use has also significantly supported global population growth — it has been estimated that almost half the people on the Earth are currently fed as a result of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use.
^ Erisman, Jan Willem; MA Sutton, J Galloway, Z Klimont, W Winiwarter (October 2008). "How a century of ammonia synthesis changed the world". Nature Geoscience 1 (10): 636. doi:10.1038/ngeo325. http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~w...eo325.pdf.xpdf. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
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90%? That seems a bit much. Does T2013 have an all out nuke-fest?
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The T2013 book (p59) has the breakdown on how they removed 90% of people from planet Earth. Most were not due to nuclear effects. Paraphrasing from the book:
- 1/3: starvation, dehydration, exposure (i.e., lack of sustenance and shelter)
- 1/3: disease (e.g., cholera) and lack of health services; plus influenza epidemic
- 1/10: combinatoin of: self-inflicted; existing medical conditions; and misadventure/accident
- 1/20: civil disorder and violence
- 1/20: direct and secondary nuclear effects
- 1/40: conventional warfare