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> but it may also well end up a hunter-gatherer existence akin to what Europeans found in North America a few centuries ago.

How could finding naturally growing plants eventually be more successful than technological innovations around agriculture, in a drier climate (our future)? This doesn't seem logical/rational, since every desert civilization moved away from a hunter-gather existence. Irrigation has existed for millennia, invented by people that lived in dry places [1], because it wasn't optional.

[1] https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/815/1/1070.pdf



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