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How Slash-and-Burn Farming works
And why it was a critical first step in human material progress
Oct 29
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Michael Magoon
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How American farmers mechanized agriculture in the 19th Century
and drastically increased the food surplus
May 28
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Michael Magoon
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We need a Green Revolution 2.0 for Africa
And why Greens are trying to stop it from happening
Feb 21
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Michael Magoon
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How agriculture made Commercial societies flourish
And it happened long before the Industrial Revolution
Feb 6
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Michael Magoon
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Farming in Commercial societies (1500-1800)
And how it generated the food surplus to trigger human material progress
Feb 5
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Michael Magoon
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Does the origin of agriculture explain global inequality?
Yes, but it is only one step in the full explanation
Jan 30
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Michael Magoon
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Farming in Medieval Europe
And why medieval peasants were the Silicon Valley of the period.
Jan 24
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Michael Magoon
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Farming innovations paved the way for modern progress
But it took about 10,000 years of experimentation to do so.
Jan 17
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Michael Magoon
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Farming in Ancient Greece and Rome
And why its inefficiencies made progress all but impossible
Jan 17
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Michael Magoon
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Virtually all useful energy comes from the sun
So let's appreciate it
Jan 15
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Michael Magoon
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Why Agrarian societies dominated recorded history for nearly 5000 years
And why they did not generate progress
Jan 10
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Michael Magoon
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How the invention of agriculture changed everything
Horticultural societies in human history
Jan 3
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Michael Magoon
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