In article , Spiv wrote:

Depends on its ability to support people and feed them from the land. The
UK can do that with no problems - 60 million of them.

Quote from the 2004 World Almanac, p. 848:

Britain imports all of its cotton, rubber, sulphur, about 80% of
its wool, half of its *food* and iron ore....

Emphasis supplied. (The old-fashioned spelling of "sulfur" is in
the original.)

Not to mention that this had absolutely nothing to do with size in
any sense meaningful to transportation.


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