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Combine land use with yield improvements - 10X - 20X per acre since the 1950's.

So the land-use graph, multiplied by this rising yield line, shows a very different curve. A shocking rise in crop consumption that exceeds world population growth by some factor. For industrial uses presumably (cotton, oil-seed and so on).

Make of that what you will.



More of our food crops have been funneled into livestock as feed as well


That's complicated. I'd imagine animal husbandry would scale well with population growth. What use is a cow, but for somebody to eat it? If that were the case, then the animal-feed component might match population growth (and not acres under cultivation).


Also, biofuel.




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