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inconvenientnews t1_j80tzmb wrote
Reply to comment by Oldfolksboogie in [OC] Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Half a millennium later, the country produces over 700M tonnes yearly (roughly the same amount as all of Asia, and 7x the amount produced by Africa) by latinometrics
dataisbeautiful post on that:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/10hvq7z/where_are_the_worlds_trees_oc/
inconvenientnews t1_j80th79 wrote
Reply to comment by latinometrics in [OC] Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Half a millennium later, the country produces over 700M tonnes yearly (roughly the same amount as all of Asia, and 7x the amount produced by Africa) by latinometrics
> Portuguese settlers
Who were the workers doing the farming work on sugarcane plantations?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/ve8sn1/african_slave_trade/ ￣\＿(ツ)＿/￣
inconvenientnews t1_j1oia02 wrote
Reply to comment by iluvios in [OC] State by State Housing Price Growth since 1975 by fred_fotch
Their incompetency in policies even affects life expectancy:
>with an average life expectancy of about 74.6 years, which would put it 93rd in the world, right between Lithuania and Mauritius, and behind Honduras, Morocco, Tunisia and Vietnam. Mississippi, Oklahoma and South Carolina rank only slightly better.
inconvenientnews t1_j80u5ui wrote
Reply to comment by ISBN39393242 in [OC] Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Half a millennium later, the country produces over 700M tonnes yearly (roughly the same amount as all of Asia, and 7x the amount produced by Africa) by latinometrics
It's used to mean North America without Mexico, because the definition of the continent of North America includes it