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Re:Mass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging th... by ahje on Thursday November 01, 2018 @04:21AM (#18352101)
According to some semi-official sources I found with a quick Googling, Sweden was mostly self-sufficient up until the mid-90's. Dunno how many people lived there during the 90's, but I take it that it was more than a million?

Of course, things will change once harvests will start failing, and if you guys had just a bad of a harvest as we had this year (Finland), then it doesn't matter if 50% or 10% of the food comes from local sources; you're going to be reliant on imports anyway.

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Re:Mass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging th... by erpaa on Thursday November 01, 2018 @04:37AM (#18352160)
Yes. But this was accomplished with heavy machinery and fertilization, which are based on imported oil. In Northern Norway you can find most pitiful attempts of agriculture above the arctic circle, indicating that the land was overpopulated and even the sea was overfished.
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Re:Mass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging th... by ahje on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:49AM (#18361286)
Interesting times ahead for us people up here then... Good thing I grow my own potatoes.
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