And yet it is easy to prove that both are totally erroneous: plenty of food could be grown on the territories of Western Europe for much more than their present populations, and an immense benefit would be derived from doing so.
Kropotkin challenges the prevailing belief that Western Europe cannot produce enough food for its population, asserting the opposite.
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