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>yet everything we actually need to survive is intact. There are fruit on trees, water is still flowing and drinkable, boars still roam the forests

This is completely wrong. The natural biomass is not enough to support 7.8 billion people. Without modern industrialized food production the vast majority of people are going to die.

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Yes. Even rolling agricultural technology back a hundred years would require killing off fifty percent of the population.

  > rolling agricultural technology back a hundred years would require killing off fifty percent of the population.

Only 50 years!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice

Natural biomass is not enough to support a specific kind of diet for $7.8 billion. It still is enough to support all kinds of diets for humans and animals. Walk outside of the bubble we have invented for ourselves.

Before the invention of the dynamo electric generators, human population was about 1 billion.

A lot of our crops are now fertilised by chemicals that either made with assistance from, or transported with assistance from, or dug up by equipment made with tool that run on, electricity.

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