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Re:Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015 by pishpash on Friday February 16, 2018 @09:24PM (#16398526)
Subsistence level humans don't get to 3 billion. They'll get periodically wiped out by idiosyncratic events.
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Re:Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015 by mc32 on Friday February 16, 2018 @11:57PM (#16399120)
Depends what you mean by subsistence. I meant like the farming we had in America in the 1900s, or Rural Mexico, rural Kenya in the 70s, Russia 1920s. You can sustain a lot of people --but it requires clearcutting, and burning. Lots of inefficiency and waste.
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