Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Land is everything.
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population.
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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