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author of the international best-sellers LAB GIRL (2016) and THE STORY OF MORE (2020)
Feb 26, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
You may have heard that Ukraine 🇺🇦 is the “Breadbasket 🍞of Eastern Europe” – what does that mean?
It means that the agricultural productivity of Ukraine is stupid-high. It also means that the incredible fertility of the soil makes Ukraine highly desirous territory.

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By land area: Russia is 25x larger than Ukraine, yet:
•Ukraine produces just as many potatoes 🥔each year as in all of Russia
•Ukraine produces 2-3x more corn 🌽each year than in all of Russia

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Jan 18, 2018 5 tweets 2 min read
There's a reason there's no plan. There's a purpose in not admitting that there is no way to survive a large-scale nuclear exchange. Our ignorance of it is vital for maintaining the fantasy of defense. Any realistic plan would be so horrifying it would make people question the arsenal. Fallout shelters would have to be equipped with food, water, crates of drugs for compassionate euthanasia and boxes of lye to sanitize mass graves.