Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But the soil was already exhausted, and when a disease came the wheat plants had no force to resist it.”

They smile when we boast about the rotation system, having permitted us to take from the field one crop every year, or four crops each three years, because their ambition is to have six and nine crops from the very same plot of land during…

Science, down to the present day, remains permeated with Malthus’s teachings.

That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.

And at the same time we learn that immense quantities of land go every year out of culture, to be transformed into game reserves for rich Englishmen and foreigners.