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    3 years ago

    That’s really neat, and shows how much sparsely populated most of the world is. I remember in the introduction to the book open veins of latin america, galeano talks about how much of a travesty it is that latin america is so underdeveloped and sparsely populated, having spent most of the 1500s onward growing monocrops for europe.