More people need to read Steven Pinker's Better Angels, violence is down over both the short and long term. The archeological record is pretty clear on this. From the abstract: "the world would have needed 3.4 percent additional cropland to keep global agricultural output at its 2019 level. We also find that bans on GM cultivation have limited the global gain from GM adoption to one-third of its potential."
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More people need to read Steven Pinker's Better Angels, violence is down over both the short and long term. The archeological record is pretty clear on this. From the abstract: "the world would have needed 3.4 percent additional cropland to keep global agricultural output at its 2019 level. We also find that bans on GM cultivation have limited the global gain from GM adoption to one-third of its potential."