Claims / C-PSB9R1Y3KG
Conjecture
Depending on the best option is what makes you fragile, and this is the same mechanism as the supply chains. Part I: foragers drew on a vast array of wild food sources, so they were resilient to disasters because they could switch from a species hit by drought or flood to one unaffected, while farming societies relied on a few domesticated plants and some on a single staple, which made whole regions vulnerable to a flood, a drought, locusts or mismanagement. Specialising on the most productive option removes the substitutes that absorb a shock. The modern version is a ventilator with 1,500 parts from 100 suppliers in 14 countries, ten thousand years later.
Evidence 1 passage
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their reliance on a single staple crop made entire regions extremely vulnerable to natural disasters. A flood, drought, swarm of locusts or mismanagement usually resulted in peasants dying in their thousands or millions. Just look at the Great Bengal Famine, or the disastrous consequences of Chairman Mao’s Great Leap F
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