• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    even though farming is credited with allowing for population density supporting civilization (tech, stratification etc) plenty of peoples subsisted on the coast for numerous generations prior

    Generations prior to agriculture? I don’t really see how that’s relevant to the current conversation.

    but fish ponds off the coast supported relatively large populations in antiquity, just by then farming was also a thing so there was no reason not to do both

    Since the advent of agriculture grain, legumes, and vegetables have made up the vast majority of calories that have supported human life. Up until relatively recent times animal protein was a relatively small part of most people’s diets.

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      2 days ago

      if we managed to survive as a species for 30x our time vs farming we’re not going to eat shit a die

      that was the point

      bad faith argument, you can eat vegetables without farming, it just doesn’t have the same population density, hence my point about ‘civilization’

      but also not every culture skews that way, just humanity at large