Heh, city-dwellers have generally been oblivious to how food gets on their tables for much, much longer than the public had the internet.
When I was a kid in the 70s, it was a commonplace in calls to modernize education to decry “memorizing countries’ imports and exports” as an archaic waste of time. And there was none of that in the enlightened education I received.
Of course now I find myself endlessly fascinated by facts like “Australia is/was the biggest seller of coal to China” and “Ukraine provides a third of the wheat bought by African countries”.
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Heh, city-dwellers have generally been oblivious to how food gets on their tables for much, much longer than the public had the internet.
When I was a kid in the 70s, it was a commonplace in calls to modernize education to decry “memorizing countries’ imports and exports” as an archaic waste of time. And there was none of that in the enlightened education I received.
Of course now I find myself endlessly fascinated by facts like “Australia is/was the biggest seller of coal to China” and “Ukraine provides a third of the wheat bought by African countries”.