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Originally Posted by kato13
The caloric numbers that HW presents as being available represents about 2% the US's prewar production (of the 7 major grains and excluding all other food sources). Given I expect that the percentage of Americans involved in agriculture (or other food acquisition) would increase at least fivefold in the intervening years, and the fact that this is the 4th harvest after TDM, that number just seems ridiculous to me.
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2% ?!? That
is ridiculous. Yeah, that's definitely a non-starter. 20% maaayyybe, but even that seems very, very low. I think the Dustbowl example kind of puts that 2% figure to bed.