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Originally Posted by Raellus
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.
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On the old board I had done all the math and had calculated that 10% of prewar production of just the 7 major grains (excluding fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, fishing, hunting, etc) would provide 2850 calories daily for the remaining US population in the beginning of 2001.
HW clearly states that production is only enough for 1/4 of the population so that gets us to around 2-2.5%. I rounded down because 2850 is a little high when people would be starving and I assume there would be some other source of calories somewhere.