Originally posted by Robtard
How much of it was factually being used, tis what I posed, not stated.Those pre/post Israel maps switch over a lot of land from "Palestinian" to "Jewish", you're telling me the majority of that land was fertile and productive cropland?
Originally posted by shiv
unwanted wasteland....?In areas where soils are poorer it takes a larger landspace to rear a head of lamb for market**.
**Refer to Ranching vs The Amazon Rainforest for a refresher.
I also made reference to uses of "wasteland"
I'll make it clear so you don't accuse me of telling you things again.
Pasture. pasture unless you are a vegetarian then pasture is just a word you read on the Internet.
lamb and beef are from sheep and cattle. to exist outside daydreams sheep and cattle need grass. grass grows on land. Shopping mall + highway + parking lot + warehouse district = starving sheep = you're a vegetarian whether you like it or not. No wait chicken and fish are meat too but no worms and grain = you're stuck with fish and nothing else.
In order to put meat on your plate you need grass which is found on pasture or on wasted land as you like to call it.
If you prefer wearing clothes to running around naked and books, music and entertainment to staring into empty space then you'll need money.
To make money you're gonna have to produce more than u need to stay alive and then sell it. And to produce enough to trade you're gonna need a larger area of "wasted land" to feed a larger herd of sheep / logging / cultivating citrus olives barley wheat etc.
If you want timber for construction for making your fences and for making your OMG Furniture so you can sit on. Maybe a leather sofa with a wood base or a bed to sleep on or even wood tiling you're sure as hell gonna need forestry. Trees need a place to grow on I guess so You're gonna have to waste some land by allowing trees to grow on it unless you've evolved to a point where you don't need furniture and stuff.
If You go to one of Tyson Foods Ranches and start to point around saying "hey you're wasting land here." "and here." "and there!"They will laugh at you.
No I don't believe The locals were wasting land in 47' the fact that they were non-dead and had an economy and material possessions shows they were successfully utilising the resources available to them.
